Second Shoot

The second shoot took place on the 25th February. We started getting ready for our shoot at 2.30pm. We picked up our first actress and headed to location. We arrived on location at 3.45pm with two of our actors, a third followed promptly after. I started the make up on our first actor, Anna, who would be the cat, whilst Lauren filmed the two other actors for scenes they were needed in. The fourth actor turned up and he joined in Laurens filming whilst I continued the cat make up. I then had the problem of fitting coloured gels over the existing lights in the living to try and make the room look more "club like." I made a cone out of the the gel and taped it around the light, taking care not to touch the bulb with the gel to prevent them burning. We used a pink gel to flood the room and blues and greens for different scenes.
Myself and the Cat then went to pick up our lead actor, Sian, and then we could start filming properly, by this time it was 5.30pm.

Whilst I prepped our actors Lauren filmed the scenes of Alice coming down the stairs and eating the "Upelkuchen" cakes with Sian. We were now ready to film scenes 5 through to 6. This was mainly the dancing in the living room and getting numerous shots of the actors. As Lauren was the Rabbit I was on camera. We didn't really face any problems at this stage, it was just straight shots with no complexity. With all the solo shots and the group dances it took about 1 hour in total. It was now 7pm and one of our actors had gone.

We then went to shoot the scenes of Alice on the phone outside. This was shot similar to the scenes with the fridge. The song was played in the background to make it easier for our actor to know when to speak. Fortunately we had took out a big LED light for outside filming so the darkness wasn't an issue. This took no longer than 15 minutes.

The outside rabbit scenes would then be filmed, followed by the cocaine scenes. We used Icing Sugar for our cocaine, it gave a similar effect and just looked like it was cut.

At 8.30pm we filmed our final scenes of the cat walking down the stairs followed by Alice.

First shoot

The first day of shooting took place on the 11th February. We started filming at 10 am, at the house location. We decided we would film scenes 1,2,7 and 8.

We started with scene 1. Alice is sleeping in bed, she hears music and wakes up. This would be simple to film, room had been organised the day before so we knew this would not take long. However, the first issue we encountered was lighting. We realised that as we were filming so early it would not look like nighttime. Luckily the bedroom we were filming in had black blinds and a black curtain, so we shut them. This got rid of the lighting problem, but now the room was so dark that we could see anything to film. Eventually we decided just to film with the lights on, these scenes would be in black and white so we hoped that it would not make any difference to how it looks. We finished filming these scenes in half an hour.

Scene 2 consisted of Alice opening the door and finding a Rabbit standing there spraying her with silly string. We filmed the silly string going on Alice first. The camera was placed over the shoulder of the Rabbit. This shot wouldn't be as easy as we first assumed. Firstly, the rabbit mask was hard to see out of so the actor (Lauren) wasn't entirely sure where she was spraying, but we found that she could move the mask up to see and it would affect the shot. Now she was able to see we tried again but when you sprayed out of the silly string its not always predicted where it will go, it can be facing forward but still go left. It took a total of about 15 shots to get it right. Now we had to reverse it, the camera was placed where Sian was standing and the Rabbit in front. We had the same problem with not being able to see out of the mask so we had to guide Lauren's hand. Then we found a clear rectangle of glass to place in front of the camera lens so it would be damaged by the silly string. This also took about 15 takes and 1 hour.

Once we had those right we moved to the next room (the kitchen) and started filming scenes 7 and 8. We encountered the same problems with lighting. I found a sheet of black plastic and taped it around the windows and any entrances that gave off light. We could have the lights on for this scene so that wasn't an issue. We played the song in the background so the actress could time the words right with the song. With all the numerous angles we got it only took about half an hour to shoot both scenes.

We finished filming at 2.30pm.