Daddy (2015)
Coming into official academia after over 25 years, I wasn't prepared for the fact that most modules in my MA course are negotiated by the student. For my first negotiated module I wanted to create a short psychological horror. In the previous module, I had written a Research Paper on the use of Jungian Archetypes in the Horror Movie Genre. I planned to use what I had gleaned from my research to explore the archetypes in a series of short films to see if my conclusions were correct. However, the focus of an MA course so I am told - is 'narrow & deep' & so I may not be making quite as many of these shorts as I had anticipated.
I had planned a full 2 day shoot for this project, but unfortunately, I couldn't get my actress for both days.
Another unexpected set-back occurred a few days before filming when the mask I'd ordered for 'Daddy' to wear arrived & was made of cardboard & not latex. I came up with a 'Plan B' & a lot of the second days shoot was spent on creating a Dead Daddy. Ironically, the most time consuming bit was the legs, which never made it into the final edit.
A couple of scenes had to be changed because the actress had a train to catch & it still wasn't dark by the time she had to leave. This is why we don't see her outdoors.
Then finally to rub salt in my wounds, I got a £35 fine for dropping Emily off at the train station. What had always been the drop off point as long as I'd been alive, was now a bus stop!
Please bear in mine, I haven't done a film BA, so some of my errors may seem school boy, but to me, they are valuable lessons which I hope not to repeat. Lighting was the biggest concern for me on this production & is glaringly obvious in the colour version below. The only thing I felt could compensate , or should I say 'disguise slightly' this problem was to turn into a black & white film.
I had planned a full 2 day shoot for this project, but unfortunately, I couldn't get my actress for both days.
Another unexpected set-back occurred a few days before filming when the mask I'd ordered for 'Daddy' to wear arrived & was made of cardboard & not latex. I came up with a 'Plan B' & a lot of the second days shoot was spent on creating a Dead Daddy. Ironically, the most time consuming bit was the legs, which never made it into the final edit.
A couple of scenes had to be changed because the actress had a train to catch & it still wasn't dark by the time she had to leave. This is why we don't see her outdoors.
Then finally to rub salt in my wounds, I got a £35 fine for dropping Emily off at the train station. What had always been the drop off point as long as I'd been alive, was now a bus stop!
Please bear in mine, I haven't done a film BA, so some of my errors may seem school boy, but to me, they are valuable lessons which I hope not to repeat. Lighting was the biggest concern for me on this production & is glaringly obvious in the colour version below. The only thing I felt could compensate , or should I say 'disguise slightly' this problem was to turn into a black & white film.
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