Filming- "Creative decisions and Last Minute Changes"

As you can probably tell from the final film we made a few changes from the original story board. This post is dedicated to pointing out and talking about all the creative and last minute changes we made.

The Introduction

Originally we planned the start of the two minute film to have the criminal standing over the dead body when the policemen cross his path and then attempt to chase him down but on the day we felt like there needs to be more of a distinguish between who's the good guy, who's the bad guy and what exactly happened with the victim. So planned a quick scene to show a conflict break out which end's up with the girl's murder.

Bean's Scene

Similar to the problem we had with the introduction we felt like the introduction to the two policemen isn't very clear to who they are, what they were doing there. So we made what we called the bean's scene where the two officers are interviewing a victim who had his baked beans stolen (the dialogue we made up for fun was he was reporting the theft of his beans- the sounds was to be cut so it didn't impact it) The scene lets the audience know that they are policemen helping a citizen who then cross paths with Dirk and begin to chase after him.

The Chase

One of the main differences from the story board and the final piece is how the actual chase blocks out. We did worry how in the storyboard the chase could easily just have became extremely dull very fast with what was planed. A chase scene with the characters only running in a straight line would have no tension at all. So on the day we were extremely lucky in how it all blocked out as I suggested starting the scene in the tennis court (add complexity to the chase scene and also would be more convenient for my friend Charlotte to play dead on the court rather than the mud. Luckily this turned into an interesting chase that lead from the tennis court, around, down the steps and over the fence. We followed the natural path that actually exists in West Kirby and just through improvisation we were able to end up with a very good chase.

The Fight Scene

Originally we had a cool complex fight scene to end the film with on a bang but due to constrictions with space on the green bridge and we where running out of day light so we unfortunately had cut it out. But we where able to come up with the dramatic ending of the big reveal of my face in time with the music and end of scene at gun point.