Our shoot day was a very long day which ended being extremely successful and great fun. We started the day straight away at 9am and got our actors to have their hair and makeup done by kika. Our character the Mad Hatter played by Jamie was inspired by the Tim Burton character from Alice in Wonderland. The make up took a lot longer than expected but this gave us enough time to finish setting up our shoot with things that we didn’t get to finish the night before. The first set was the tea party scene which looked great as we had loads of props.
This scene took a while to film as we had to do a lot of takes using different camera angles and close ups on all of the characters. All of the actors did a great job and Rose and Oscar were very patient as there was a lot of the same shot done. As we had a lot of sweets and cakes as props on the table, we thought it would be a great idea to take advantage of this and made sure we got some close up panning shots down the table. The lens that we used during this showed a higher level of detail in our video.
During this scene we did encounter a few obstacles along the way. One of these included the shot of Sabrina falling into the cake. Luckily this didn’t turn into a problem as it all went to plan, but we only had one cake and had already used our prop cake so if it didn’t work then we would have been in trouble.
The other hurdle that we came across was when we had to throw balloons in to the background. At times it was difficult to see when I was in shot as I was covered by a huge cloud of smoke.
I think the main problem we had that day was that 3 out of the 4 members in that scene had to leave due to other commitments so we were unfortunately unable to get our perfomance element shot and decided we should just cut it.
After a quick lunch break we were able to grab out singer Jamie to do a few lip syncs of the song. This was great fun to film as he fitted the role perfectly. We also changed the setting around to give it a different atmosphere. Here we made it smokey with tall white blocks with sweets on top. Again we threw balloons into the scene to give it a quirky effect.
When we were shooting in the studio, we all revolved around the equipment and took turns on the camera and on set. I mainly enjoyed getting hands on with the set as it was fun but I made sure I was behind the camera some of the time.
After we were finished in the studio we made our way to Courtney’s house to finish filming. All of our characters (Cinderella, Belle, Prince Charming, Pinocchio and Sleeping Beauty) already had their hair and make-up done before hand so that all that was needed was to get into costume and set up the camera and lights. It was then just Courtney and I that had to get our hair and make up done and into our costumes.
The setting and the stairs was already decorated perfectly the previous night which was lucky as by this point we were already strapped for time. This was one of my favourite shots as we did a tracking shot of all of the characters on the stairs. This included all of our cast members including me who was nowdressed as Snow White! In terms of the lighting in this scene, we gave it a red tint to create a sense of atmosphere and create a dramatic effect. This worked really well for us as it made it all look quite dreamy which was what we had in mind.
Once the staircase scene was finished, we then moved on to our upstairs scenes which included a hallway scene, a bedroom and a bathroom scene. By this point I was very tired as it was nearing 5pm and the day had been pretty full on.
For the bedroom scene we used low lighting with candles to give it an authentic feel. We also used candles and red lighting in the bedroom scene with Courney and Max in bed, and used a flicker effect over the lights to make it look romantic. This scene took a good few takes as it was hard for our actors to get the hold of it but we got there in the end!
Overall it was a very succesful day, however there are still the begining and end scenes which need to be filmed as well as the pre-roll.
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