filming on me own!

It came to a point that we ended up with 1 minute and a half worth of footage which was a problem obviously as we need two minutes, so we agreed for me to take the camera home and solo film some shots to add time, and then pass on the camera to someone else if we needed more. The teacher advised that we needed more shots of a build-up to the murder, like a montage. I realised I'd have to film some stuff with me as Louis' character, so I wasn't gonna show my face or too much of me. I found a jacket of my mums that looked like the one Louis wears, which was good. and lucky.

I filmed me taking a bottle of whisky from a collection of alcohol beverages ;) and then of drinking it without showing my face so I had me sat down at table and be filmed 'drinking' from different bottles (as I thought Chelsea was also going to film some stuff of her own, I thought could have a shots of the character drinking from different bottles mixed up throughout the montage).



Then I did me taking the knife out, from three different angles (including a pov shot), and I was going to attempt filming me breaking (or making it look like it was being broken) the whisky bottle but I couldn't come up with how to do it without tyding up loads of glass and probably getting cut by said glass and I tried doing something with shadows of me throwing the bottle (onto the sofa, which couldn't be seen; would have then added a breaking glass sound effect) but it didn't work.



It took a surprisingly long time to do that by myself! It was kinda hard, cos obviously I didn't know if I was in the right position and stuff when filming myself. I was also scared the camera was going to fall off the tripod and break! Here are two screengrabs from the two shots we left in the finished piece