Primarily, our plan was to begin with Jake, (the protagonist) vomiting in to a toilet. We were faced by multiple problems, first and foremost, creating a believable vomit for jake to throw up that would not go on to poison/injure him. We ended up utilising a cup-a-soup mixture, which interestingly had an incredible likeness to vomit. Despite being advised by many website to use a mixture of cornflower and other substances.
We took many takes of Jake 'being sick' so that we could have as many shots to choose from as possible, Jake was a good sport during all this and was incredibly committed to the cause. We utilised spotlights for this shot, to create as much light as possible. We also had to make sure that Ben, whom was operating the camera, could not be seen as a reflection in the tiled surface opposite.
Following this Ben (pictured below) began filming a long tracking shot, facing a door, drawing closer to it. We wanted the transition of the camera to be as smooth and as professional as possible. We intended this to be used before Jake is sick, allowing the audience to guess what may be behind the mysterious door. Again, we filmed this many times to ensure maximum quality, as occasionally the camera would shudder, and we wanted the shot to be perfect, therefore, we shot it again.
To concatenate my thoughts on our second day of film making, I believe we progressed excellently as with the relatively short time period we had available, we created the first 30 seconds of our opening, which i believe we are all genuinely proud of. At that moment in time, I believe we were all very excited to carry on with filming and progress even further. On our following days of filming we hoped to gather some extras for our piece, all appropriately dressed for the part. I also wanted to develop the mise en scene, appropriately for a teenage party.
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