Filming

Above: Materials for stop motion and stop tricks

We got off to a disappointing start on Wednesday as the actor called us half an hour before we intended to start shooting to say that he had just been injured and was in the hospital! This left us with no alternative but to try to get as many cutaways and shots that we thought we might be able to do without the actor needing to be present that day. Unfortunately, because our idea is to have the black and white section then the colour, we couldn't shoot out of sequence as this would create an issue with continuity - the colour stop motion meant using the wall space and this would invariably be in shot when we wanted to shoot blackand white scenes if we didn't shoot chronologically.

Therefore, this set back created a major problem for us that day however, we did try to get as much done as we could.

Above: Filming the clock cutaway/stop trick

On Thursday, we did a lot more. Dan was now going to be the protagonist as we felt we had little alternative but we did lose some time trying to find white face paint that would cover enough - the stuff we'd found on Wednesday was useless!

We worked our way through a fair amount of shots on the rough list we'd written out but we'd anticipated we'd get through more. A lot of what we need to do is stop motion and we decided to do that in one big chunk, so we finished the shooting with the prospect of using the weekend to capture and edit the footage we already had and review which gaps we had that needed filling in terms of shots we had wanted and if there were any new ideas that came to us after seeing what we'd already got.

Below: The ending image for the veins stop motion