Shooting the Therapy Session

We have recently completed shooting for the film's therapy session scene between the patient and the therapist; this being my first time using a DSLR camera in a real shoot. This being the most significant scene of the film, it takes up a majority of the shots we needed to take; leaving only a few shorts scenes and shots to gather. Filming mostly went ahead mostly without incident, despite a small technical problem with the sound recording equipment. We had initially created a lighting set-up using Dedolights that created the sense of some kind of interrogation, but we were unfortunately unable to use it as we realised that any changes in lighting would be visible during the split-screen effect. The below shots show us blocking so that we could all gather an idea of what the shot would be like before it was actually taken.

This was a rough version of our original lighting setup. A strong key-light was used to create the sense of an interrogation scenario.

Here, Rebecca and I sit in the places of the therapist and the patient respectively. This is the setup we used to create the split-screen.