Time: 16:00pm - 17:00pm
Moments filmed: Off Limits/Discovery
Personnel needed: Matthew Herriott (Camera/director), Evie Brookes-Payne (Producer/Mya Brown), Kim Wright (Dr Goodwin)
Props: Keep out sign, Mya's file
Equipment: Camera, Tripod
As the last thing that we filmed on this particular day, there were many complications to trying to work out how to put together Mya's investigation.
The main consideration was how much of the corridor we needed Mya to walk down, and realised that in reality the audience does not know how long said corridor is and therefore all we needed was for her to walk up the stairs and then she could pretty much be at the doors already.
The most difficult thing though would have to be working out when DR Goodwin should have to walk out of the office and down the corridor that is on the other side as where she would be starting from was out of sight and earshot for us to be able to give her an idea of when to go. In the end, we had to use timing so that I had approximately 15 seconds to get to the camera and press record before DR Goodwin would walk out of the office and down the corridor. As we knew that it was perfectly feasible to edit out any bits of that particular shot that we didn't want, it didn't matter if the shot lasted too long early on because we didn't have to keep it.
When it came to filming the second half in which Mya would discover her file this was more complicated because we needed to make sure that the audience could have a chance to very clearly read Mya's file tag as well as her expression when she finds out what is going on at the Institute. This was where we had to make a crucial change, as opposed to having that moment be as two shots - one in which she opens the cabinet and another in which she reacts to her discovery - we had to add a middle shot which would allow the audience to get a close up shot of the file so that her tag could very clearly be read.
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