Sixth Day of Filming

Date: 14/03/13
Location: Durants Park

Crew

Me: Actor

Michael: Director

Shayne: Make-Up Artist

The scene we filmed in Durant’s Park follows the protagonist as he sits on a bench in the park all by himself. The scene is done to point out the characters mental state as we see him talk to himself upon the bench. The protagonist becomes two different characters to show his positive and negative side.

We used the 180 degree rule to our advantage and filmed the shot of from two different angles to make it seem as if it were two separate characters speaking to one another. The first shot we took was of the protagonist as happy and smiling protagonist he laughs and jokes with his other side, our second shot being the sad and depressed protagonist he wears clown make up upon his face and barely givens any recognition to his other side.

This reflects the characters mental instability as he is talking to himself. This is common symptoms of bipolar disorder, Multiple personality disorder and schizophrenia and helps us as the audience to see what is going on inside the protagonists mind.

The audience would be able to see this was in the characters head as we had use realism throughout the entire video and introduced this surrealist scene in which we see our character talking to himself with clown make-up on and i felt that this scene worked effectively contrasted with the other scenes. 

The idea was heavily inspired by the Character of Gollum from Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)'. The character is a hobbit who has slowly become a monster as his greed and corruption for the ring turn him from the mild mannered fisherman named Smeagol to the hunched back creature he becomes named Gollum. Throughout the film we see the conflict between his two personalities and we tried to replicate this within our own music video. In this particular scene the 180 degree rule is used as the camera pans around Gollum and he begins to shift between his two personalities, the scene then goes to jump cuts as we see Gollum speak to Smeagol as if they were two separate entities. We decided to use the jump cuts idea as we felt if filmed better than using the 180 degree rule.

This is a photo of me as the protagonist the face mask  was painted by Shayne and Michael in order to look like a clown. We used red,white and  black poster paint as it would begin crack as it dries and create a evil  clown look. The only problem we had was making sure we painted fast enough as the paint dries into a mask quickly and meant that if I moved my face an inch the paint would begin to crack and split however i feel we did a good job as it gives a very scary clown appearance and shows the characters depression. We had heavy inspiration from the Dark Knights (2008) Joker.

This was the clip which heavily influenced my performance as the protagonist and inspired the scene.

I felt that overall the day went well we got a lot filmed and the make up was done to perfection. I felt that it would have been better if we had spent more time on analysing the storyboard and thinking about all the different shots we would need in order to make editing more efficient.