Initially
the project ran smooth. When we first began shooting we did receive commentary
from school safety about shooting on the campus, but once they learned we were
students and it was for a project, they backed off. Our film sets from the
first floor of the North building all the way to the sixth. Only three of the
scenes we shot are using the actual escalator, as most know after the third
floor your options are the elevators if you get lucky, or everyone’s best bet,
the stairs.
As the
director I had to learn how to steady myself with the camera. Any random
movements could throw a scene off. I also had to keep track of the scenes and
the progress we made in shooting. When Crystal and myself first thought we were
finished with shooting, we looked back over our footage and saw that we missed
some of the transcending shots. The shots were not in sync, so as director we
went back and shot everything that was missing to keep everything in sync,
after all the final project was based on continuity. I also had to cue my actor
and do numerous takes of the same scenes in different angles, this helped out
lots when we were editing.
I also was
the recorder for most of the sounds that we incorporated for our little film.
Since we did not keep the original recordings from the shootings, we decided to
go back and record whatever sounds were necessary and deemed prudent to our
footage. Even though majority of the sound for our film is footsteps, it was
not easy to get this recording. The sessions in which we had the recorder at
our dispense turned out to be the quietest moments in the hallway, so we had to
wait around for the traffic to pickup to get some of Hunter’s natural noise.
In terms of
editing Crystal did majority of the cutting, I primarily overlooked and gave my
insight on what scenes I thought were better and would be worthy to keep for
the final arrangement. In all the production was truly a team effort and a
great experience. I hope everyone enjoys our little production of the hallway journey
through hunter.
