Jon samuroff AS Media: Filming

Filming is now done, with all of it being successfully shot in one night like I planned. For the "special effects", Bovril (a truly vile beef stock thing. By far the hardest part of this whole piece of coursework was having to be in the same room as it.) was applied to Joel's nose via a wooden spoon. Although, one concern I have is that people, when watching it, will think "that doesn't look like a nosebleed". It was supposed to be a dark colour, to hint at possession easier, but I suppose I should have made that clearer. For the water blood scene, Joel took a mouthful of blackcurrant squash before taking a sip of water, so that when he spat it out back in the glass, it was coloured. I was suitably impressed as to how well that one transferred onto camera. For the tooth scene, we used a mint covered in tomato ketchup (pictured below). However, in the actual shot, the ketchup isn't really visible at all. The final scene, in which Joel collapses to the ground, is accompanied by light which keeps going from bright to dark continuously. This was achieved by myself and Tom (who was present on set helping out and taking photos) turning a couple of dimmer switches back and forth. Hi-tech stuff, I know.

I deliberately chose for filming to start at midnight. I believe that there's a certain mood (a vibe almost) present in people late at night / early morning. One that would benefit my work greatly. I feel like all of my best work is created when I'm hardly "with it". (Most of this blog has been put together in the early hours of the morning). It also allowed me to capture a genuine bleary eyed expression from my actor. We wrapped up around 3am as expected. Then it was time for a celebratory viewing of Reservoir Dogs (one of my favourite films of all time), before heading home. All in all, I'd like to think it was a successful shoot.