Filming the grapefruit and the shower scene

Today we filmed both the grapefruit scene and the period blood shower scene.

I think that both scenes went really well and we got exactly what we needed.

We used red grape juice and undiluted ribena for blood.

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Related work

I came across this article on buzz feed which is quite similar to aspects of our film so we used it as inspiration -  Buzzfeed Link

It includes a link to a girls Instagram who has taken photos like this:

Update on the edit

This is a rough cut of the bed sheet scene at the start of the fim.
I had some technical difficulties so I couldn't export the film so I had to record it on my phone (hence the talking in the background)

Instagram account update

I've been posting regularly to our Instagram page for the film to try and give it some attention and gather people who might be interested in watching it when it's completed.

By going through and following accounts of female artists, strong women etc i've managed to gather quite a few followers.

I have also been reposting (with permission) photos from other artists accounts and labelling it "inspo. So far this has gathered more attention to the account and more followers, and also keeps up with the aesthetic of the account which brings in more followers.

I've linked my university email as a contact and the film's Facebook page as the website.

Period/Shower Scene Test

I did a quick test of the period scene to see if it would work as I envisage it.

I just filmed it in slo-mo on my phone so it's not great quality and it's quite dark but it woks to see the general idea.

The idea for the scene is to do a POV shot of feet like this in the shower, then to do a few drips of blood between the feet, then to do a slow-mo gush of blood.

For blood in this I just used diluted Ribena, but I think to get the thick, dark consistency of real blood I poured a bit of straight Ribena in the sink and it looked quite realistic (It is slightly too red to pass as real blood but that wouldn't be a bad thing because the whole scene is a play or how ridiculous periods are made out to be). We can use this as an option, but our production designer also knows how to make realistic fake blood that is drain-safe.

Diluted Ribena

Straight Ribena

In terms of the logistics of filming, my shower has a large gap between the walls of the shower and the ceiling which we can easily put the camera through, to be far away from any water.

We will also have to have the shower on cold/lukewarm to avoid steam.

Music

Because of difficulty getting equipment, we have to film a lot later than we would have wanted, giving us significantly less time for the edit.
I was originally going to get one of my music friends to compose a piece for us and work with them, but because of a lack of time to meet the deadline we're having to use royalty free music and mix it together ourselves.

Here's a few songs I have found so far (all royalty free):

This one would work well for the period scene as it has water gushing in it:

This one would work well for the end credits:

I am still in the process of finding more that will fit and then will do a rough mix of them together to edit to, and edit the mix with the film.

Test Shoot

We are going to be filming the rest of our film next week (wednesday 26 - friday 28). On the wednesday we are going to be filming the time lapse, which will be of a woman breastfeeding a baby doll on a park bench. We know exactly what we are doing on the shoot day because we have done a test shoot of the time lapse.

Studio scenes

These are just a couple of studio scenes that we filmed.

Shots that we filmed

We decided to film the first scene with the bed sheets using two cameras: c300 and canon 700d. We did this to get as much variety of the shots as possible. We mainly used the canon 700d for the extreme close ups as the camera is smaller so it allowed us to get really nice close up shots.

Test shots

These are some of the test shots that we did, such as the close ups of the dildos:

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Interviews | Electric Press Studio Footage

Here are some interviews we did at the Electric Press on Day 2 of the shoot. Both me and Hayley did camera work, so Hayley had the Canon C300 and I used my personal DSLR camera, these shots are from what I did to get other angles for the edit, and we used the C300 for the main wide shots.