Production: Day Two!

Day two of production was Rook Studios most productive day out of the three.

Out of the eight scenes we had to shoot, we got five done on day two, scene three was shot on day one. 

We shot the following scenes: Two, five, six, seven, and eight.

Throughout the period of production, I made the decision to cut scene four. This was a montage, a group of scenes put together of Rook investigating and interrogating the other pawns. I knew we wouldn’t really have time for this in the final cut, so it had to go. 

Another scene that gave us some trouble was Kammy’s death scene/Rook’s interrogation scene. 

We had actors holding up the black fabric behind Kammy. Our original plan was to pin the fabric up on one of the walls. However, the fabric was too heavy. We also needed a table for this scene, and we couldn’t drag the tables around. So, our actors who weren’t filming were given the job of holding up the backdrop.

They did quite well, as can be seen in the still above, it looked smooth enough despite how windy it was that day. 

Framing was another issue. This shot was more difficult, considering it was a longer shot, and quite a bit was happening. Me and Jackie, our cinematographer, wanted to originally do an over the shoulder/pan. We were able to achieve this, though, in five takes.

Overall, we had a very productive second day of shooting! We have one more production day to go, then onto editing!