I am filming this upcoming weekend, I have my actors and crew aligned, and I am just acquiring some last minute props. I have also began to work with my composer, who has written several main themes I can work with. I have a tension theme, and themes for each of the characters as well as musical themes and gradations for Utah and Colorado respectively.
I am running a barebones crew, so I will mostly be utilizing natural lighting, besides for some garage lamps and a bounce positioned on C stands. I have a shoulder mount that I am going to use for steady moving shots, and have started to practice some of the scenes in order to work with the focus and steadiness at the same time.
I want my sound design to be filled with foley, so I have also started to collect recorded sounds with my Zoom H4n. I am working with people that I have worked with before on previous shoots, so I feel comfortable that my shoot with go according to plan as much as possible. Unexpected things will happen, but I am sufficiently preparing back-up plans for my back-ups.
Subtly will be hard to express in this short amount of time I have to work with being a seven minute-ish film. I am still deciding what to cut out of my script to get it closer to seven pages, and so I am consulting with my co-writer in order to get at the heart of the project, to really see what I need to include and what can be let out. At the moment it all seems important, so I may need to include more montage and flashbacks than I anticipated. I will try to use as little of these techniques as possible, as I know they can become repetitive and conventional.
