I don't like to think of the script as having 'problems' or 'traps'... more like CHALLENGES that we as a crew can overcome!
They include:
They include:
- The sandwich being eaten by an invisible force at the end
- Solutions:
- Special effects in the edit
- Using string and particular camera angles to make it appear as if it is being lifted up by a ghost
- Scrap the action completely
- Solutions:
- The electronics 'going crazy' when Stephen comes back upstairs- this may be difficult to achieve (and have a big impact) with just a laptop being his main electronic source in the room. It would also be hard to film a screen, and make the screen lights flash on and off/flicker in a strange way. HOWEVER we want to keep this in the script.
- Solutions:
- Don't actually show the laptop itself
- Set up lights behind the desk where the laptop will be, that will appear to be similar to ghosts
- OR, our current line of thinking is bring the room down to black, except a light on Stephen, and have the papers from the desk fly around him, with a brief cutaway to the laptop and other things he sees.
- ... With the papers flying everywhere, they could come out of a printer which would be another electronic device in the room.
- OR, our current line of thinking is bring the room down to black, except a light on Stephen, and have the papers from the desk fly around him, with a brief cutaway to the laptop and other things he sees.
- Solutions:
- The amount of shots and the set up time required for them may be problematic in relation to how much shooting time we have.
- Solutions:
- Cut down the amount of shots
- Merge some of the more complex shots so they can flow into each other
- Think of other ways we could do some of them, considering things like lighting and angles
- Solutions:
- The potential of having white walls - this sometimes causes issues with lighting
- Solutions:
- Cover the walls that aren't in shot with black cloth
- Use minimal amount of lighting/only light things that are particularly necessary
- HOWEVER, many of the shots are from the day time, so natural lighting could work in our favour - we may only need to use minimal lighting to create the mood.
- Solutions: