Today was the final and longest shoot day, due to filming having enough time to film what we had originally planned to film tomorrow after having already shot what was planned today.
The scene planned for today involved a group of SWAT police breaking into the house where the production is set and apprehending our three main characters for accidentally revealing government secret via webcam whilst still in a hungover state. Aimee's brother and his two friends were brought in as the SWAT team. Their equipment consisted of paintball guns that looked very much like the real thing and multiple sets of combat armour which suited the Swat team look that we were looking for.
This scene was filmed from various different cameras, including go-pros attached to the SWAT members showing them approaching the house with the main character's inside. The main camera was used for inside the house, taken from multiple angles. I used the boom microphone as usual to record these through multiple takes. The first few takes produced a rather distorted sound due to the chaotic nature of the scene, therefore I had to turn the recording level down in order to capture clear sound. This scene was successful and ran relatively smoothly, with the only problem being Callum needlessly complaining despite the filming process going well.
It was after this that we realised that we had plenty of time to film the field scenes that we were planning to film tomorrow. The field scene involves the character, Ralph's, hallucination where he has turned into a sunflower and two other sunflowers are berating him. After reaching the field, I immediately set up before everyone else and recording a sound bed for the setting. This captured the light wind and the birds chirping which suited the scene perfectly. The actor portraying Ralph wore a sunflower costume while two fake sunflowers were put into the ground. A voice over will be recorded for their lines at a later date. The sound quality taken from the boom microphone was of good quality despite the outdoor setting. The only real problem was that it was starting to get late in the afternoon and the sun was starting to go down, so filming had to progress more quickly in order to catch up.
Overall, the filming of these scenes today were very successful considering the scale of the events with these scenes and I am happy with the quality of the sound that I was able to capture. That can be said of the filming progress overall with only the slight problems with disagreements between members of the production crew. Hopefully the use of the Tascam wont prove too much trouble during the editing process though I still have some doubts. As long as communication between all of the production crew members is good, the editing process should hopefully go relatively smooth.
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