PRE-PRODUCTION; PROJECT UPDATES

Test Shoots

We undertook test shoots across two days with some stand ins. Laura, director, wanted to film multiple scenes (no dialogue) so that she could try out the fig rig for the first time, as it something she has never used before but does want too, so it helped her to visualise where the fig rig would work best in terms of what scenes to use it on. Laura also wanted to try and film on the panasonic camera, a canon 700D as well as her phone, an iPhone XS Max. This phone films in 4k and it looked very professional, we were really happy with the footage that came out from this.


On our second day of test shoots we tried to test out the montage scene, where Marlo is going to be sitting in his classroom, emotionless and distant while other students come and go.

Script Rewrites

I have also made some changes and finalised the 2nd draft of the script. The first thing I knew I needed to do was to go through it page by page making sure all of the grammar and punctuation was correct. After this I went through and re-worded certain pieces of dialogue; for example the mother character originally said 'you best get cracking and get them grades then', Laura noted that she thinks this is a bit too colloquial and should be changed, so i changed it to 'you must work hard and get those grades then'.

Also with the script i changed a scene around, Laura thought it would be better if when our main character Marlo, comes home from school that he is greeted directly by his mum with a therapist, rather than the original scene where he has been home for a while and finds his mum downstairs with the therapist. This is because it creates a chain reaction. Marlo has just been frustrated at school so he is already in a sensitive and frantic mood, if he was to sit in his room for hours before the next event happens (his mum asking him to speak to a therapist) he would have a chance to cool down and maybe not react as intense as we would like him too in the narrative.