Lights, Camera, Action!

After designing our setting, there was only one thing left to do... Film! Well, actually, Ben had to put some make-up on first. And no, I'm not talking about his lipstick, I mean the makeup he needed to fit into character. Below is a picture of our star, Ben Eiglarsh in all his makeup dirt and blood glory, in the film opening's first scene.

In just a few hours, we were able to come home with a good amount of footage, and knocked out the majority of scenes we planned in our storyboard. When arriving to the set, the first thing to consider was the appropriate level of lighting, While the garage's lights were too bright for what we originally envisioned, we found that opening the garage door a tiny bit would allow just enough light for the camera, while still creating a shadowy scene.

At our next day of filming, which will most likely be next weekend, we have to film one of the opening's most important scenes, the flashback. Luckily for Ben, this scene doesn't require him to put on his makeup again, but he still needs to be ready to act. As mentioned, in earlier posts we plan to utilize low key lighting for this scene in particular, and we plan to open the garage door even less than we did today, to create the shadowy scene we have envisioned.