This portion of filming is about after the scene where the wine pouring was interrupted by the oven beeping. Located at this scene on the story board:
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After the oven had beeped interrupting the wine opening, we put the camera in the oven, and I could be seen opening the oven and taking out the dinner (a rotisserie chicken that Juan bought. I though this shot was more interesting than just filming me opening the oven from behind or the side, it gave us more unique shots. I shut the oven door and then we had an overhead shot of me seasoning the chicken and bringing it to the table, followed by another shot from above of me chopping some cucumber for a salad that was in the top right third of the shot. As the character was cutting the cucumber one rolled of the cutting board, as she was picking it up from the floor in an over the shoulder shot she was still holding the knife and there is a flashback in red lighting of her in the same position but instead with a dead body in the background, bloody gloves on her hand, and the knife covered in blood. After the scene returns back to normal of her holding the knife and cucumber, she walks over to the trash and throws away the cucumber, there is a tracking shot of the cucumber into the trashcan which contains bloody napkins and gloves from the aftermath of the flashback scene. Elena than goes back to cutting the cucumber and scoping them into the salad bowl.
Then she brings the salad to the table and as she's putting the bowl down, she receives a notification from twitter on her phone. The camera pans up to show all her messages from messages that were delivered week ago to the most recent notification. All the messages consisted of the same information that the man had arrived at her house however they were all from different people and the last thing they had sent. This reveals that whatever happened Elena never talks to them again, and since there are so many similar messages that leaves the audience suspicious and assuming of what happened at Elena's dinners.
Elena is shown from a low angle looking at her phone smirking which shows her malicious intent. The doorbell then rings and in editing there will be a cut to a black screen with the movie's title "Manslaughter". We are working on designing the title and also deciding if we make it on word "Manslaughter" or split it up in two words " Man Slaughter", or if it should be one word with both parts titles "ManSlaughter" or dash between the two "Man-Slaughter". It seems unimportant but there are so many options and feel like each one has a different vibe, so we need to work on that. After the title card it cuts back to Elena walking towards the front door to open it which shows that its only the beginning of the film and there's more to come.
We didn't really have any issues with this part of filming except for
1. I was SOOOO hard to make the cucumber roll of the cutting board naturally without looking like I purposefully smacked it off so that took a couple shots to get right.
2. I could not smirk well for the scene where I smirk at the phone. It always looked unnatural or just plain happy with no deeper emotion, so I don't know how I feel about that part and maybe refilming it at some point with more practice to make it look better for the final film. I feel like it throws of the film, I am just not an amazing actor with facials so I will have to see how I feel about it later.
I think overall the filming was very successful and went smoothly, we didn't have a lot of issues and the ones we had were able to be solved quickly. My team and I have been very cooperative with each other so and have had mostly the same thoughts. I think our editing is going smoothly the only issue is we have a lot of film but at least we have many options and not too little film.
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