SCENE IN CINEMA: Y2: S1: WK 6: FILMING SCRIPTED PIECES

burbs altered script

Here is an altered excerpt from my friends’ web series called BURBS which I used. The series was shot in suburbs in my hometown, Wellington, New Zealand. I actually was lucky enough to be back home at the time they filmed this episode, so I was able to witness a small-scale production process first-hand. I also got to be an extra, which was hilarious.

The whole series is definitely worth a watch, very impressed with their efforts!

Our filming timeframe was really rushed unfortunately as we ended up having about 5 people in our group and we each only had half an hour to film everything – some went over, some went under. I had Rob play Hamish and Serena playing Alice, they were both really easy to work with which was ideal and helped speed the process along.

I made a shot list to work with and ended up changing things around whilst filming – but it more or less stuck to the basic outline of what I had initially planned. There were a couple of less important shots toward the end which I ended up leaving out as I was afraid that I would go over time and cut down other members’ allocated time.

shot list burbs

Tomorrow we will be discussing assessment 3 and then editing in the suites – hopefully we will have time to complete the edit of one of our scenes! Looking forward to having a play with the footage we have collected. As we have to edit someone else’s work from our group, I think I may edit Rob’s as I want to see how the shots look together as he got closer and closer to his subject (myself) when separate lines were said – his aim was to build tension in the dialogue by doing so, so I’m interested to see whether this will shine through or not.

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