Guerrilla Film-making with UniTV
Over the past week, we have been working closely with UniTV to create and shoot their latest short film project: 'UniTV Does Black Mirror 2'.
Watch the first one here:
It was around this time last week when we came up with the film idea, and 3 minutes later, we had a producer, 1st AD, lead actor and production crew on board and ready to film... our fastest turn around from idea to team ready we've ever had!
Over the past two days we have shot most of the film, bar from a B-roll, voice overs and foley.
With an insane work ethic and incredible team, we managed to shoot an 8 minute short film for the most part in one day, guerrilla film-making at its finest.
Usually I spend a lot of time story boarding the layout of every light, lens, actor placement, object placement and camera movement. However, this was the first shoot in a long time where I worked it out as we went. Sacrificing the 180 degree rule occasionally for prettier lighting took priority for me, working with the natural lights found on location, placing coloured plastic bags over lamp posts and finding Brighton's neon and fairy lights to start to create the colour scheme inspired by 'The Last Night' trailer.
I was very aware that the lights we were working with, did not match the colour scheme for the film. However, I have great confidence in my colour grading ability, and made sure to have distinct lighting colours that could be adjusted later in post production for the desired effect.
