Arin Hesketh: Supporting Role- Concerned friend
So, over the past few weeks I have managed to start filming and have made a lot of progress so far. The people that will be in this project will be me, playing Tony, the main character and Arin Hesketh playing the supporting role as the concerned friend. The point of the story is showing the implications of the self imposed isolation one puts upon one's self by being locked away on the computer all day. The setting I used to film the main scene was the kitchen in my house. I picked the location mainly for the lighting as it is overhead, bright and direct. This would insure that I would get an even amount of lighting in the room.
At first I did some preliminary footage to get a feel of what such a scene would look like. I started out filming myself in front of the computer, surfing the web, but it did not give off the sort of feel to the atmosphere that I intended. I decided I needed to do some fine tuning to my project along with adding a few props.In one instance I played a clip of static and white noise on the screen of the computer, which I would stare at to accentuate the mind numbingness of the disconnect that my character has created for himself by being isolated from people for so long. In addition I used grease paint and eye liner to give myself an unkempt, haggard look to my face. I used the eye liner under my eyes to create the effect of baggy eyes and I used the grease paint to make my face look dirty and gritty, something I would expect from someone like my character, who just sits at his computer for days on end.
The only thing that I have left to film is a short scene of my character suddenly finding himself in an empty room after my character's friend leaves him alone. This scene is intended to symbolize the character's loneliness and to act as a transition from when his friend leaves him to when he wakes up. The entire sequence of events inevitably leads up to the main character waking up and realizing that it was all a dream. The sigh of relief that is issued by the character as he calms down is quickly followed by being startled by suddenly seeing the computer at his desk (the one that was in his dream). Shortly after being spooked, the man hardens his expression into that of resolve; a resolve not to let what happened in his dreams happen to him for real. He then attempts to call his friend, but the his friend does not answer. We soon discover why. His friend is in the same state that he was in in the dream. A close up of the friends face in a zombified like state quickly fads to black, ending the last scene. Editing is currently in the process, along with the last of the filming. Updates on how those are doing will be given at a later time.
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