In this scene, we aimed to portray the court-mandated community service our protagonist is working in. Cleaning graffiti off a brick wall the effects would be edited in later on.
To film this we required 6 people to be on-site at the same time, this proved a challenge as with every actor having a different schedule to work around finding time to film was difficult. We had a bit of flexibility in terms of who we cast as Arran's dodgy friend's although Holly and Arran were essential to the scene and Holly only had limited time before she had her lesson. In this time we had to collect the High Vis, bring the actors to the location and prepare the camera, possibly with more organisation it would have been less hectic and we'd have more freedom to enjoy it and get 4 or 5 takes to choose from. If budget was no issue it would have been much better if we could get permission to spray paint the wall and then hire an artist who can spray paint I believe this scene would be perfect.
As a Filmmaker, I looked to use misc-en-scene to leave connotations of the story. With Arran centre frame it positions him as the centre of attention while Holly is off to the left and the mates are off on the right, this portrays that there's a decision for Arran to make.
Interesting! With a fairly large cast and juggling the logistics of assembling them there on site at a time when there was an acceptable level of background noise cannot have been easy. You also had to organise the loan of the high vis jackets. It would have been helpful to explain what you were capturing in the shoot in terms of your narrative, so that the significance of the framing of Holly was clear.
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