VLOG: 2nd Day Filming // Smoking scene

ACTORS

• Kato Maki - Francois Francisco

SCENES

• Blowing smoke into the camera

PROPS

• One cigarette

This week Chandler was in charge of filming the smoke scene courtesy of Francois who will be the father of our main protagonists. As I am in charge of location scouting, I suggested we film in front of these wooden boards that were painted black so the background doesn't subtract any attention from the actor's performance. 

The shot is exactly how I drew it on the storyboard which is an extreme close up of the actor's face, only revealing the bottom half of his face to create a some ambiguity. The use of a close up also intensifies the frame because the main focus is on the actor blowing the smoke directly at the camera.

  It was my turn to document the process of filming this week :) James and Jasmine acted as barriers so that the smoke would blow directly into the camera and not in an undesired direction.

However, containing the smoke proved to be quite difficult LOL:

But in the end we managed to film the shot we were satisfied with: 

We were pleased with this shot because the ambient lighting was perfect which was a step up from last week because we had some issues with the lighting indoors. On the next day of filming, we intend to film the female protagonist fighting and using a gun to threaten an enemy.