Delusions Production Diary
In production
Shooting day 1
Cast
Ally Goodman
Caitlin Walsh
Location
Exterior detached house
Interior: kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, kid’s
room.
Unfortunately I had a very tight timeline
to do filming, as one of my actors didn’t finish his work until 18:30 so I had
to start shooting after 18:45. First day I have planned to shoot my exterior
scene as the weather was lovely. I shot my whole film with Canon 5D Mark III
with f1.4 24 – 105 mm lens. Also I have used Go pro hero 3+ black edition to do
my time-lapse and some other shots. Because we started filming late evening, I
had a bit of problem with lighting. Interior scenes I used ARRI light kit and
set up three-point lighting. For the sound and sound effects I used microphone
and Tascam sound recorder to record all the sounds. Locations I picked for time lapses were Hope
Mountain and World’s end. I managed to
finish shooting all the scenes I planned to film which were exterior detached
house, breakfast, dinner, bedroom scene.
Shooting day 2
Cast
Ally Goodman
Caitlin Walsh
Ethan Barry
Margaret Barry
Emin Atilgan
Location
Exterior care house
Exterior playground
Interior kitchen, kid’s room, living room.
I had to make a last minute cast change, as
my female child actor’s wasn’t able to come and I had to change the character’s
sex. Instead of using a girl actor I used a little boy. As I knew it would be
dark to shoot after 18:30 I started my shoot with exterior care house scene.
This was a good shoot as I got to work with different range of ages. Next stop
was playground scene. We have just managed to get the filming dark before it
went completely dark. As soon as we are
finished exterior shots the last filming of the day was interior house. I felt
very stressed during filming, as I didn’t have long time to shoot as the child
actor had to go home early. Although I didn’t manage to get all the filming
done with him, I filmed the essential scenes.
Shooting Day 3
Cast
Ally Goodman
Caitlin Walsh
Emin Atilgan
Andreas Wanner
Runner
Tom Barry
Location
Gresford Pond
Gresford All Saints Church
Glyndwr University, Plas Coch Campus
Third day was the last day of shooting. It
was all about filming the flashbacks and the final scene of the film. I was
lucky that the weather was gorgeous so everybody in the cast and crew enjoyed
the shoots outside. First shoot was the wedding shoot. Luckily there is a
beautiful church by the main location where detached house is; we shot the
wedding scene outside of the church as the gates were locked. Secondly, we shot
the purpose scene, which was again near the main location. The next shoot we
had in university corridor to as a hospital corridor, which I was very happy
with the results. And last shoot was in the house, filming final and the most
important scene in the film.
Postproduction
I used Adobe Premier pro CS6 and Adobe
After Effects CS6 in postproduction. I transferred the footage day by day and
categorized them scene-by-scene to match the sounds and I didn’t start editing
until I finished all the filming. I used Go pro editing software for time
lapse. In the final scene of the film I
had a problem as I didn’t have enough footage to edit. As James puts the ring,
Ella fades away. But the camera was on the floor in the middle of them, looking
up. To make her fade away I need footage of Ally in same shot without Caitlin.
My solution for that was to take a still image from footage and edit in
Photoshop. ( I will supply breakdown with images). After photoshopping I had to rotoscope Ally,
Caitlin and the ring and this was the most time consuming part of editing. ( I
will supply breakdown with images.) While I was editing I went and got more
sound recordings for sound effects such as, door, gate, bedroom, bathroom, and
kitchen ambiances. Also for breakfast scene I had to color grade to make it
lighter as we shot the scene at nighttime with three-point lighting. In flashback scene I use different color
grading to make it stand out.
This project helped me to understand time
managing more. It was good to be by myself but struggling.
