Filming Progress

So far, I have done most of the filming for my short film. I've had to change some things though, for instance I decided to change the Character's name, for various reasons. So his new name is Glennard Maxwell. It is a perhaps more believable name, and after asking a few people about it, they agreed that it is the sort of name you'd expect a triangle player to have.

From the feedback from my animatic, I know that there are perhaps too many shots of just the main character sat in the chair talking to the interviewer, which is why I think I might add some new shots into his interview; sort of like flashbacks, in order to keep the carrier wave of the audience's interest going.

Finding the right location and actors to film has been very difficult for the past few days, as people who have agreed to act for me have ducked out at the last minute for various reasons. To overcome this, I'm going to have to really focus and organise a tight schedule in order for me to fit in my filming by the deadline. So I shall be contacting various people and being strict about times of filming as of course I need the best possible light, however because it's winter it gets dark earlier in the day, therefore filming must start earlier!

On the first day of filming I had great fun setting up the Triangle's shrine!

Making the props such as the box that the triangle is kept in was great fun and making it's surroundings look mystical and exciting, was great fun too. I did this using the candles, the cloth on the table, the incense stick and the rocks.
You can tell from this that the character takes his triangle extremely seriously... or maybe too seriously!




Having the actor dress up as Glennard Maxwell was great fun too.

He is wearing large glasses, a tweed jacket a shirt and grey trousers (which you can't see in this image)
This is the sort of look my target audience thought was appropriate for my character.