The filming process day 2 (part 2)

Date: Wednesday 29th November 2017
Time: 13:55-14:40pm
Moments filmed: Therapy 1 & Decision
Personnel needed: Matthew Herriott (Camera/director), Evie Brookes-Payne (Producer/Mya Brown), Emma Hillier (Silvia Brown), Shannon Reading (Dr L Church)
Props: Dr L Church counselling room sign
Equipment: Camera, Tripod

As what was potentially our longest filming session of all of them, the therapy shots proved to be more of a challenge than we had originally expected and this was a for a few different reasons. 

The important idea that we wanted to convey in this scene is that Mya has to go through Therapy following her accident, therapy which doesn't seem to be very effective as Mya is very unresponsive to DR L Church's (her therapist's) approach. 

The reason as to why this was so complicated is because we needed to try and catch a lot of body language seeing as the physical sound from these shots was going to be removed at the editing stage meaning that although we could get different characters to speak the kind of lines that they might have said in the event that we would be keeping the sound they were going to have to exaggerate the way that they were saying it by shifting around or by opening themselves up to make it clear that something had been said. In some places we can clearly see that DR L Church is talking as we are close enough to see her lips moving but at other times this was not quite so easy. 

The other chief consideration that we were going to have to make was what lighting to use, and this was because Mya (who is supposed to be very downcast) was wearing white in a white room meaning that only her hair looked the way that she should be feeling. What we ended up doing was a take with the lights on and a take with the lights off so that in the second version at least we had less lighting and Mya doesn't appear to be quite as bright as she did in the original. Having taken so many different attempts at some of the shots it left us with some serious considerations that we were going to need to make when it would eventually come to the editing stages.