Well on tuesday we went to the music department in the secondary school of redcliffe where they had a couple of rooms which looked good enough for the interrogation room. So we chose the one without the window and had to move a whole load of things out including drums, tables, keyboards and speakers. We then realised the room was quite small and there were some fat shelves packed with books and files and stuff that we weren't going to move. So we decided we were gonna have the whole sequence when Louis is sat on his own shot from the pov of a surveillance camera, as there was no room for him to be walking around and then the fat shelves were behind the camera too.
I borrowed a prisoner outfit (orange jumpsuit) from a friend of mine for Louis to wear, as well as shirt/shoes/trousers for police interrogator. I also went on amazon to order some handcuffs and a police badge, and brought in a (squeaky) truncheon for the police interrogator, I guess make it kind of realistic. We were equipped with two cameras: one from school and Sophie's.
We placed the tripod camera on top of a table so that it was high and obviously looking down at Louis as a surveillance camera would. Chelsea came up with the idea that whoever would be filming (stood up on a chair) should shine a torch at Louis as a spotlight - this seemed like a good idea as it really put Louis in the spotlight and gave a representation of him being surrounded by darkness (you know, cos his character's future looks pretty dark/bleak, as well as the ). It's also good it was dark because there were quite a lot of holes on the wall, and the floor was dirty every here and there (needed a hoover)
About four or five shots of Louis on his own were filmed, and then we switched cameras for when the interrogator dude enters. Now, the lad who was gonna be the interrogator had to go somewhere so I stepped in for that role (get in!). We had Chelsea kneel down behind Louis I think or by him, and filming me entering the room and telling Louis to talk, without showing my face. Then we had an over-the shoulder of him about to start and a final surveillance pov showing the two of us.
Here is Chelsea filming the over-the-shoulder
shot. Now I look at this it's kinda funny I look
more like a prisoner than him with that haircut haha
It took an amount of surprisingly short time to do all this, about half an hour. Though perhaps because it took a couple of hours to do the filming at my house (to be re-done), we were expecting this to take longer. Anyway, we moved everything back in but then I had to take the school camera back to mine which was awkward cos of the danger of dropping the tripods and camera.
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