The Asylum shoot

Our Shoot

our white lab coat

We carried out our shoot on monday the 25th of february, we first got the train to Menston. Which is where we filmed our opening,  at Menston High Royds mental asylum. This is the perfect location for our film as its similar to the film we are basing it on, Mad House. At around 3o'clock in the afternoon when it was still light. We then filmed outside of High Royds, in which we acted out a chase scene in which the patient is escaping from High Royds. Curtis our patient got into his costume which was a white lab coat. The other actor - Jake, also got into his costume which consisted of doctors trousers, a doctor shirt and a doctors a ID which is a key piece of mise en scene in our opening because it provides realism to the audience.

After filming at High Royds we then went toour second location to film the rest of opening. We filmed Outside and inside of the location. Inside we filmed in the bathroom and landing. The bathroom was ideal because of the mirror above the toilet, this was used to create our false scare. When we were outside we filmed the drive, using the car as part of the mise on scene to represent his working social class. This was also a gender representation as the male being a working character. 

The fig rig we used

We were lucky with the time that we went because it wasn't dark yet, which was ideal because we hadn't previously planned on taking a light with the rest of our equipment. The fig rig proved to be a key piece of equipment that we used as it provided a stable camera shot which proved handy when filming POV shot when we changed the location of our opening.

I feel that the quality of the footage was good but there are major improvements to be made and to do this we need to re-shoot. Firstly we tried to get as many shots as we could however, this did prove to be difficult, we encountered problems such as our match on action being out of sync once we had edited our first rough cut, also we had extremely long takes.

In our re-shoot we plan on getting alot more shots but of many different view points and camera angles. Therefore, we will have more to work with when we are editing and we will not have to re-shoot for a second time.