The shoot - filming locations



 

 

 

 

This is a sketch of the layout of Matt's house. The labels on the left refer to the shots of the characters walking from the sitting room to his kitchen via the corridor, explained further in another blog post (The day of the shoot - complications/solutions).

 

The camera was positioned in many different locations:

• The sitting room for the most part, filming narrative segments and cutaways. We had the lights off but left the TV on, giving a faint light from a low angle in the room. The main shot type was a mid shot, although we did also use low angle and over the shoulder shots too. For all locations we filmed, we made sketched out the layout of the mise-en-scene as to not disrupt continuity.
• We filmed at the bottom of the corridor looking towards the sitting room, the problems with which I discussed in the aforementioned blog post. All of the scenes we filmed here were the same, long shots with the characters walking towards the camera. The only change to this format was in one of the final shots of Jamie and Ben walking towards the kitchen, which was a two shot.
•  Most performance shots were filmed in the same location, slightly in front of the last location, facing towards the band. We used close ups for the individual band members and long shots for the whole band performances. We panned up on the corpses, once with just Tyler and one with Tyler and Amy. There were a few long shots taken from a low angle with the feet of the bodies framing the shot, looking up at the band performing.
• We filmed in his toilet as it was the darkest place in his house we could find. This was a mid shot of all three band members saying two lines of the song. We wanted this shot to have a serious tone, so we used a torch pointing up from the floor to create atmospheric, low-angle lighting.