Red Five Shooting

RED FIVE PRODUCTION

DAY 1

The first day of filming was when we did most of the external shots in our opening. It was Saturday the 25th of March, and we started to film at around 1:00pm. The weather was really good, as we got a lot of sun and virtually no clouds. Before we started filming, we had to get our props and actors ready to film. The only prop we needed was a Thinkpad, but we had to make sure Eoin remembered his headphones and his beanie, which were important parts of his costume. Eoin was the only actor we needed for this part, even though a security guard (John) also features in this scene. For a camera, we used a Samsung Galaxy S6, which was Eoin's phone. We are filming in 1080p, so his camera is very capable of that. To stabilise the shot, we used a gorilla pod, which is a small tripod that holds a phone. For all of the scenes we were filming, Eoin would be seated on a rock at our film location, on a hill overlooking Belfast. When we began filming, there was only one big problem we faced. The hill we were filming on was quite steep, so completing moving shots was a struggle. However to overcome this, we kept movement to a minimum and used zoom-ins instead of some moving shots. There was also some wind problems, but despite these complications we overcame them and finished a productive day of filming.

DAY 2

"A Successful Shoot."

On Sunday the 26th of March we filmed the rest of the external shots and some of the internal shots. The weather matched the previous day of filming so there were no continuity errors, we were finally able to film the security guard part with our actor John Campbell. John is an 18 year old but with his facial hair and deep gruff voice he looks and sounds older. This chase scene came with some challenges, the camera had to run with John which was difficult as we did not want the footage to be too unstable fortunately the camera we are using comes with OIS (Optical Image Stablisation) which helped stabilise the image. Another challenge with filming the chase scene was with John's clothing, due to complications John had to wear black shorts and couldn't wear the required black trousers we planned for. This meant that we would have to film John from the waist up and cut out parts that showed his lower half. We were able to overcome all of these challenges and we finally finished filming the external scenes. We started to film the indoor part of the film but we ran out of time and couldn't finish filming. Overall we had a successful shoot.