Friday (10/06/09)
Today was the last day of filming. Having filmed everything requied inside the College, it's the only part of the video left unfilmed.
Filming a fight scene is surprisingly difficult. But to fit with the camera style I decided to use throughout the rest of the filming period, I simply started rolling and filmed everything from beginning to end, keeping the camera low down to the ground and spinning around the characters in a rough manner. This technique seems to have worked extremely well as it looks like a genuine fight if you didn't know any better and only saw the footage ion the tape.
The blood used is a mixture of Golden Syrup, a very small pinch of coffee, red food dye and in small part, blue food dye. This combination made perfect and very realistic looking blood when dripped onto Daniel’s face with a pen.
The day regrettably ended in trouble. Daniel Glynn, playing Michael, slammed his head into the wall when he required to be thrown against the wall to end the fight scene. Unfortunately, the fake blood looked so realistic that no one on set could recognise the difference between the fake blood and the real blood coming from Dan’s head until sniffed.
Fortunately I decided to film the fight outside directly opposite the First Aid room, in the event of an injury. So it didn't take long to call security and have Dan seen too immediately. After seeing the First Aider, Dan was advised by all of us to go to Hospital with his mum to get the lump now protruding from his head checked out properly, simply for reassurance.
I have talked to Dan and he appears to be fine.
This ends a rather exhausting and quick filming schedule. Next week will be dedicated to logging footage and editing.
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