So yesterday we were originally going to film the main scenes which include the Keith and Jane character, in other words, the hallucination scene. However, my actress for Jane cancelled because she couldn't get a ride, something about her mother being a P.I. she was searching for someone, some crazy thing. She still wants to be a part of it, but it will have to be next weekend.
As for today, we successfully filmed the first and last scene with the Detective and the Witch. We filmed in this large room in the Weston Branch library called the Multi-Purpose Room. The interesting part of filming here was that we had to make the scene look small, so we set up three different tables at different parts of the room to be filmed. Each station was either both characters, just the Detective, or just the Witch. Filming like this gave off the illusion that the room was small. When I looked back at the footage, however, the lighting for the shots focused just on the Witch came out brighter and bluer than the other two locations. This could be due to the fact that the area we used for her focus shots were right in front of this door that led outside, a door with windows that let in sunlight. Hopefully, I can fix it in post-production, but if not, we may have to film again :(.
My actors' performances were pretty solid. At first, they were joking about my directing skills and were unsure of what to do exactly, but after some direction, they got the gist of it. Of course we messed around often and got plenty of material for bloopers, but overall I enjoyed working with them and I was confident in their abilities.
All we need to film now is the ritual scene, the hallucination scenes, and the bullying scenes.
Yayy.
