Shooting was pretty smooth. We had allocated a lot of time to make sure that everything came out smooth and not rushed. We had lots of time to make mistakes and to quite literally just take our time.
The actor was really chill and worked well with us. We managed to get him in and out of the set in like one hour and fifteen minutes, so I consider that a success. Usually I have a hard time getting what I need from actors and they have to stay for long periods of time, but we were very timely for this project.
1) A loud family. My dogs kept barking and my parents and siblings love to talk like they are in a concert, so virtually all the audio we recorded needs to be foley in the edit.
2) Fake blood is hard to make. It took us an enormous amount of time to make the fake blood. It was very hard to try and get the right consistency and color.
3) Low-Quality lights. Some of the shots were useless because of horizontal lines that formed on the screen. This happens because I have very low quality LED lights that cause flickering if we shoot at a shutter speed faster than 1/50. A couple of shots had to be tossed.
4) Makeup does not stick. For the wound on the victim, Andrea needed to apply special effects makeup, but it kept sticking to her hands and not the guy’s stomach. It also dissolved when we began to shoot.
5) Focus. It is hard to pull focus on a tiny little display and a tiny little focus ring. This caused a lot of issues in the close up shots because the actor would move slightly forward or backward and completely ruin the focus, but I couldn’t really catch it on the camera’s display monitor.
Despite the shoot being quite successful, we did encounter a few issues.
2) Fake blood is hard to make. It took us an enormous amount of time to make the fake blood. It was very hard to try and get the right consistency and color.
4) Makeup does not stick. For the wound on the victim, Andrea needed to apply special effects makeup, but it kept sticking to her hands and not the guy’s stomach. It also dissolved when we began to shoot.
5) Focus. It is hard to pull focus on a tiny little display and a tiny little focus ring. This caused a lot of issues in the close up shots because the actor would move slightly forward or backward and completely ruin the focus, but I couldn’t really catch it on the camera’s display monitor.
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