Cinematic Production: Filming Day & Wrapper Mock-Up

Filming Day

It was a long day today but we managed to film all of the necessary live action shots, background shots and reference shots to progress towards the animation phase of the film.

We brought along Jerwin's friend Robby as he had good filming experience. He provided a lot of the help for the operation of the cameras, lighting, and good suggestions for how we could improve on our shots. With his guidance we learned about quite a lot of things regarding filming:

- We improved on the pacing of the shots to help with the establishing of the setting and the actions occurring.
- A lot of the shots were changed (with the intro for the most part) to better convey certain actions/help with the sense of direction as Michelle moved from place to place and asserted attention towards certain areas.
- Lighting concerning room lighting, inner lighting for the fridge and the spotlight, getting rid of shadows with light bouncing.
- Panning shots to better portray the flow of Michelle's movement from the desk counter to the fridge, as well as the perspective shot to focus attention to the vegetables.

Concerning my work for the day, I did:
- Directorial work. I determined whether the acting concerning movement and speech delivery was up to standard. I looked over pacing (timing, pauses), line delivery (before/during/after an action, emotion and expression),  and shot composition (concerning where she was in the shot and the angle of the shot).
- Support with lighting.
- Filming the blank shots for Butter's environment later on. We determined which shots were the best concerning Butter's line delivery, movement, emotions and what the camera could work with at most considering the space we had to work with (small room, the fridge door and not being able to dismantle the fridge).

Here are some photos from the shoot:

Lighting

Setting up shot composition and angles

Everyone contributed quite a lot to the filming today in terms of the manual work as well as giving out ideas and suggestions for how to make each shot better. Thank you for all of the hard work!

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As for the wrapper, we managed to measure its dimensions and have made a mock-up of what the design could potentially be. We are going for a posh yet disturbing kind of design, possibly in terms of the text to be found written on the wrapper.