filming with the cell

There was this fantastic manor where we filmed the office and garden scenes and it just took my breath away, only issue was the road just next to it was audible but with some tweaking I'm sure it wouldn't even be noticeable. The garden scenes gave me great opportunities for ambient sound as well as the chance to capture up close birds singing to each other.

The interior of the manor was breath taking as well as it being pretty soundproof to most other things, it just had this beautiful feeling to it that I hope I was able to capture through my sound recordings. Even though it was perfect and very sound proof in certain areas of the manor, the office wasn't the most secure as in a few recordings you can hear the traffic in the background?

The entire experience was amazing not only the location but the people that I filmed with and the actors that blessed the ground in front of our cameras. The actors were very polite and well spoken very willing to participate in our ideas of how this scene will be shot.

The studio shoots we were apart of went very smoothly and kept itself as organised as we could keep it under the time pressures we were under. The issues I had personally as a sound op with shooting in  the studio is that I could hear very clearly anyone outside of the door and everyone moving above me. The way I got around this was having several mics set up so that way if there's a loud noise I couldn't prevent then one mic will catch it at a high volume but the other would catch it in a quieter depth where the editor can edit more accurately.

This was just when there were 2 walls up and we were doing tests with our equipment just to get a feel for the cubism. 

I do believe the orange jumpsuit was going to be the original uniform for our main character but after our tests we in fact realised that it was a terrible idea to wear reflective garments in a cube with light pointed inward.

The design for the poster was one of my behind the scenes photos which I think was a beautiful yet happy accident, it perfectly symbolizes the film in it's entirety. The fact that he has so many questions, just looking curiously around, even with the sound equipment and such in shot it just symbolises the fact that he's not a person who's been in prisoned without reason, the 4 walls he knows is just a fabrication for a test, a test that he himself has seen and been through many times; it both takes you out of the films realism yet also still clings to you allowing you think, maybe.