Afterlife - Day 1

First day of Afterlife production today and we are filming the Facetime scene. We were all set up and ready to go at 9:30, we just needed some extra bits of equipment. However, we had a few mishaps on the morning which meant that I was incredibly poorly and we didn't get equipment until about 10:30. We managed to get everything set up and started filming at roughly 11:15. We had a few extra hands today too which was very helpful as sound required two mics as two places/dialogue were happening at the same time. 

The shoot went rather smooth after that and better throughout the day as the actors started to know their lines. The only trouble shot wise I had was lighting the phone. I used two LED lights for this shot to light up the phone as it kind of blended into the black surroundings. However, the director didn't like the lighting here. So we did one with one without. We also did a slider shot of going into Gabi's mouth wide open which will be match cut in edit. This one was very similar to the trombone shot in Cirque and was hard to get right and to pull focus (I was tracking in, tilting up, and pulling focus all at the same time). We did quite a lot of takes so there's plenty to pick from (I like to think it worked at least two times).

I am a bit concerned about the over the shoulder shot of the phone as 1) I don't know what the editor is after and if we needed a portrait version of the scene to edit over the top of a green phone, and 2) we don't have a real time version of the pink bedroom over the shoulder Facetime call as the phone died, so we just had to do a blank screen. Hopefully the visual effects editor has enough to go on.