On sunday morning, we walked with the equipment to the chosen location behind ''The Halfway House'' pub in Whitworth. Although we hoped for some frozen dew glazed over the marshlike field, the windflow sweeping across the high, amber hued grass accentuating the atmosphere of emptiness against the grim backdrop of naked, lifeless and blackened trees. We began by quickly filming Kieran as a reporter, which I set up facing an active road simply to show that there is life at this point. When we were editing at school we felt that the intro sequence of the trailer was lacking the clues needed to imply the possible causes of the cataclysm in the film; so we decided to film several sharp shots of action and put them into the static sequence to mix it up as opposed to having on single sequence of static followed by an atomic blast, which in hindsight appears sloppy.
Continuing on from this, I set up the angles of the fight scene between Max and Kieran, to keep the drab environment in the frame. I had to arrange the fight scene differently to how we planned initially to fit it into the setting and look more 'organic' and less contrived. I concluded that in future any fight scenes should incorporate the setting during the planning stages, otherwise, on the day of filming, we sometimes waste time having to change the devised shots. We mutually agreed to carry on with the rest of the shooting without the meticulous detail we generally put into every shot, reasoning that it was too time consuming and every second hurt in the blistering cold.
I played my role in the production as an actor again today also, resuming my part as the 'damaged journalist' protagonist. I performed as best as I could in order to reduce the need for retakes and press onwards so we could get back home in the warmth. After that, we subsequently went home because we decided beforehand that there wasn't much else to do.
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