Why Don't You Make a Blog About It!

Before I start the edit stage of my blog I thought it would be nice to get the view of Katrina (Sian) on what she thought about the script, story and characters of 'Press Play'.

"Upon first reading the script for 'press play' I was intrigued by the idea and exited! I thought it was a very interesting and compelling storyline. One that is very much relevant to someone of my demographic, yet with an interesting exploration of the pressure students face and need for a release. I particularly liked the expressionistic quality to the film that gives it an edge! 

On set I was very nervous but was made to feel at ease and was given directions thoroughly which made everything a lot more enjoyable! All in all, I absolutely loved working on the film with everyone who was involved and I'm excited to see the final edit."

What's the Rush?

So now that shooting is over I had the misfortune of logging my rushes - industry speak for footage - and this is my least favourite thing to do right after story boards!

It does however give me the chance to look over my footage again and see what shots I like for each scene, so when it comes to editing I have an idea of what I like and which shot to use.

How I first went about logging the rushes was by putting them in chronological order from scene and shot; labelling them as such: Scene 1 - Take 1 etc. then I gave a brief description of each shot such as: MS Jack vacantly starring at screen, and so on. This will make it easier to find which shot I am looking for when it comes to editing.

It's a Wrap!

Reason to celebrate: myself, Niamh and Anya have just wrapped up on my short film 'Press Play'!

We finished shooting scene 2 and the film on Wednesday the 30 April. Originally we were suppose to finish a day before on the 29th (which is when we booked the room for the library scene, before we left for Easter but then when I went to confirm this when we got back, I was told it was being used for a class) so we had to postpone a day.

We started filming at around 14:15, and as scene 2 was a relatively short and easy scene to do, as I knew exactly what I wanted the main time consumer would be getting the shots from different angles, so that I had something to play with and cut from when I went to edit.

As this scene is the set up for the problem and is mainly a conversation between Sian and Jack, I just wanted it shot like your classic every day Hollywood conventional conversation, with cuts between each character as they talked because there was no real call for anything else.