Filming (in the) Forest

After school, my group and I went to Markham Park to film. There is a part of the park that is a bit secluded and is the forest area. There are some trails here, but we explored in places where the trail, if there was one, wasn't visible. We did this because it adds to the mystery, and we felt as though our character isn't someone that would even be on a trail. Our filming process went well and I will provide more details below:

While we were filming, we decided that it would be really interesting (and cool) if Daniel acted as if he were seeing hallucinations of his parents. So, in many the shots, Felipe (pretending to be the father) and I (pretending to be the mother) were slowly walking away (zombie-like) from Daniel (our backs toward him). We were able to film many shots of Daniel running and jumping to imply the importance of what he is running towards.






Daniel's hallucinations are best shown through the shot of Daniel falling and then looking up while reaching out, toward his parents. We placed the camera on a slider behind him, so that it started on the far left and panned to the right, which shows Felipe and I walking away while Daniel reaches out. Once the camera passes his head, Felipe and I are gone and Daniel is reaching towards nothing.

In order to imply a car crash, we decided to have shattered glass. So, we purchased a glass bottle and crushed it on the ground (and cleaned it up when we were done). We used close up shots of the shattered glass with objects that a person wears, like eye glasses, to imply that the glasses have fallen off the person due to the crash. As such, we also have close up shots of the actual tires in fast motion, which further implies a crash.

We filmed lots today and although we changed some of our ideas, the shots still came out well and we stuck with most of our previous ideas for different movement techniques, shots, angles, etc. Excited for tomorrow!!!