Project 2: Part Three

For our production we had most of our scenes to be filmed at one of the members house. To save time and money we spent two full days there filming. We started with the stop motion and set our camera on a tripod, we had 2-3 people move the objects while someone took the photos. We wanted to show that our character 'Karl' had given life to the objects and that this life could be passed on between the objects. This was the most difficult part of the filming since it took a lot of patience and strength to keep the objects very still, it also meant we had to be very careful with what was in the shot and to make sure the objects looked consistent with each frame.

Once the stop motion was done we moved onto the rest of the bedroom scenes. We found that our costume was not very active when lying down so we chose to keep 'Karl' in an upright position when he needed to move in a shot. We closed all curtains to keep out any unwanted light and used lamps to keep a consistent light for time of day.

When it came to our fourth day of shooting we felt that we were vastly running out of time so I made a shooting schedule for the remaining scenes we had left to keep us on track. This was a more organised way of filming and I believe helped with the completion of production. We also gave each other assigned roles and were more open and directive with scenes that could only be filmed once within our time frame.

For the public scenes we wanted to get a sense of surprise from the pedestrians, this was difficult due to most people ignoring 'Karl' when inside his costume. We later found that the best way to cause a reaction is for the pedestrians was to get there first reaction to 'Karl' and not have time to adjust. So we set out on keeping the robot costume as hidden as possible until it was time to start filming, also keeping the cameras hidden helped with keeping pedestrians focused on 'Karl' instead of the cameras.