Account Of Shoot Day

In the morning of the shoot I was very confident, especially with all the preparation that our group had done. 

The only thing I wasn't sure about was the actors, I had never met Simon before and he played a major part in the production of our thriller as he was the father. I also hadn't seen Molly (acting as the daughter), Katie (acting as the girl guest) and Clare (acting as the mother) act before. I wasn't disappointed by any of the actors, they all did a great job in making the shoot look like a real life family with friends over and not simply actors saying lines. On the right there is a gif of a couple seconds I filmed when I wasn't on the camera. Phil did a particularly amazing job acting as the furious father. We were lucky with the weather, we didn't really need to have sun light even though the sequence is meant to be in the morning as it could just simply be a cloudy morning. I do find that the natural light looks great. Our actors also did a great job dressing as asked in the props list, all looking formal and like they are about to go to work or school.

On the day of the shoot we went to Adam's house and cleared his table and the widows to make everything seem very clean and perfect. I think that the table and dinning room really fit what we were looking for. Which was basically your stereotypical eight seat family table in a family dinning room. 

Here is a picture of the kids talking about the previous night before the father arrives.

We used a tripod for all of are shots, for most of the time the camera wasn't moving. For the shots where the father looses it and he goes crazy on the kinds I applied some follow type shots where I would try to keep up with were his face was and where he was facing. So if he turns to the left to start insulting one of the kids on the left I would radically move the camera that way so the audience can get a feel of this pressure being aimed right at the kid. I also applied some shake to the camera movement to make the moment feel unstable. 

Overall I was very content with the shoot, great actors and location and I think my group and I did a good job directing the actors.and working with the cinematography.