Filming Blog: All Tied Up

     Last Saturday, 2/22 my group and I began our filming process. We recorded all of our footage, but there will definitely need to be some re-filming. We began our process with the first 30 seconds of our movie. We filmed the lead character walking home and a truck following him. This is where most of the titles will be added. For the next scene we went in a dark room so we had no lighting. In this scene the kidnappers call their boss and say everything is going smoothly. The light from the phone is the only light in the shot to make a more mysterious feeling. Next we filmed the lead character getting kidnapped and thrown into a truck. This part was hard to film because we had to make it look like the kidnappers hit the lead with a bat and the lead had to pretend to be unconscious. We successfully completed this shot safely by stopping the shot right before the bat was supposed to hit the main character's head. For the next scene the kidnappers must tie up the lead character. This part was the most difficult to film because of the lighting. We had to tape sheets over the windows to get the perfect lighting. Another problem was that the kidnappers had a hard time tying up the main character. They couldn't work together, and at one point one of them was untying what the other had already tied. Once they finally, correctly tied up the character we went on to the next scene. In this scene the boss enters and asks to see the boy. To her surprise she finds out the kidnapper got the wrong kid. This scene was easy to film because it was the same as the last scene but a new character enters.