First Day Filming

Today was our first day filming and it went really well. Our actress Mehreen looked like a very convincing patient once she had on the hospital gown and after we stripped down the room the mise-en-scene was very accurate for a mental asylum because it was very bare with minimal furniture. 

We decided to start by shooting the 2nd shot which is freehand from the door when a bag is placed on the floor, this shot took a few attempts because I was having trouble to a smooth camera movement while holding the props and opening the door, in the end i was able get enough of the room and Mehreen while holding the camera fairly steady.

The next camera angle was a high shot from a CCTV point of view of the bag being placed on the floor and the patient getting out of bed to pick it up. The shot was a match on action to the 2nd shot so I had to place the bag on the floor in the same way; we also had to make sure that our actress was laying in the same position to the mise-en-scene was accurate. Then we matched this shot to the 3rd which was a low angle pan form under the bed of the patient’s legs coming down and her walking to the parcel as well as the CCTV of her picking up the bag. This shot was hard because the pan had to be smooth and fast to capture the whole movement.

The final shot of the day was a mid-shot of the patient walking from the bag to sit on a chair, and then we ran out of time so we had to transform the room back to the way it was when we arrived. Overall it was a productive filming session and we got lots of good shots that we can start to edit together.