Production Shoot: 09/12/12

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 marsh-like field, the wind-flow 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 Tom set up facing an active road simply to show that there is life at this point, and I gave Kieran some ideas for dialogue and hand gestures to denote that he is a news reporter. 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, me and Kieran were involved in a fight scene that will be used as a montage sequence that is a common convention in film trailers. We had to choreograph ourselves in a way as to make the scene look gritty and realistic. We 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 was again filmed mostly in my role as the war veteran, although I did have some time with the camera in which I tried to create some more shot variety such as looking down the barrel of the gun and Tom dropping to his knees. After that, we subsequently went home because we decided beforehand that there wasn't much else to do.