PRODUCTION DIARY - DAY 4 - December 20th, 2010 | West Croydon
Crew in attendance: Peter Ninos (Director), David Tang (Cinematographer), Trent Ninos (First A.D.), Teena Ninos (D.A.) and Billy Ninos (Clapper Loader). Cast in attendance: Adam Schmerl (Jake).
Scenes being filmed: OMEGA Scene 7
Our final day of filming for 2010 was a much smaller and tighter shoot than the last three filming days.We have one scene to film, the pivotal moment when Jake researches OMEGA and watches Prof. David Jameson's video detailing the comet. Most of the scene will cut to an edited reel of the Viral Videos we filmed on Day 1 at the Stockport Observatory with Devon but today we filmed Adam's scenes watching and reacting to the videos.
My dad was kind enough to lend us his kitchen for the scene, we had to empty heaps of stuff out so the shots didn't look too cluttered. We also had the challenge of simulating moon night while it was still pretty bright outside.
DTang set up out lights and used clever shadows to sell the time of day. The other crew kept commenting how bright it looked but when we reviewed the footage you could definitely be mistaken for thinking it was a full moon in the dead of night.
We did several shots of Adam walking into the scene, we added a quick shot of Adam lighting a candle to add some extra actions before cutting to the videos. We did several shots with Adam and laptop in frame with markers on the screen so we can edit the Viral Videos in at any point in post-production.
Filming went very well, everything went smoothly even if we had to do multiple takes after shots were interrupted by exterior sound. We shot the walk-in, laptop search and walk-out many times for different angles and takes - thankfully Adam reminded us there was dialogue in the scene and we filmed that last!
We wrapped up filming close to midnight, and as a clear indication that DTang is a master Cinematographer, we had all assumed the artificial lighting he had set up was actually the light levels outside. Well it was pitch black and my brain did a double-take to make sure I hadn't blacked out for a few hours.
So that wraps up filming for OMEGA for 2010 - we still have many scenes to film in the New Year, but we get right back into filming on the 6th of January 2011.
A huge thanks to all the cast and crew - Adam, Kate, DTang, Ian, Teena, Trent, Theadora, Faye, Tamae, Billy & Paul, thank you all so much.
Catchya in 2011!
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