Criminology Shoot 4, Hospital shoot two - 19 March

Phil prepares for the spooky coridor shots.

We returned to the hospital to complete the shots with Phil. Kyle, Phil and I arrived a little earlier than the rest of the crew whilst footage from the day before was logged back at CCAD. We took advantage of this time by shooting some cutaways of Phil with the BMPCC. We hoped that this might warm him up a bit for script based shots once the rest of the crew arrived. Once the rest of the crew arrived we took the rest of the shots including the measuring sequence, with a nice slider shot of the tools being picked from a table top, quite uneventfully. Originally scheduled as a short days shoot we finished as planned and decided to collect extra on spec shots and take advantage of the location, since we would not be coming back

The gruesome tools used during the shoot.

 We had to break of from the shoot midway through for a meeting at CCAD before coming back for some corridor shots. After the success of the Dolly on the first shoot due to the studio like floors we thought we could use this to our advantage to create one long rolling shot the full length of the corridor I had suggested that we could take two sets of redheads to illuminate the corridor through the open doors of the different wards running off it, inspired by a shot I was considering for the bendy corridor shots for lifetime in the FE College using coloured gels through the window walls. Kyle constructed some shots and we followed the wheelchair on the Dolly with the camera and then filmed a POV shot handheld from the wheelchair. These worked really nicely, dark and moody. When finished because we had the time to and the ability to I wanted to take a shot of the camera rushing down the corridor towards Phil and Liam with the chair at the bottom. I don’t think the shot will be used in the final production but it occurred to me that it would be a a good shot for a nightmare dream sequence. It had a great look to it similar to the Evil Dead rushing camera shots as the little bounces along the smooth floor gave a great effect. This is definitely one to use again sometime. After another successful days shooting we called it a day.