Director's Commentary

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Intro-

Hello, my name is Shae Mahony and I’m the director of “The Locker”.

Scene 1-

·      Used camera stand to steady camera.

·      Found it very hard to keep it smooth and be able to move the stand inch by inch steadily.

·      Rest was reasonably easy.

·      Technique- showed actor (Charli) what actions I wanted her to do.

·      Said action- Charli did the action shown and I took continuous pictures.

·      Made process faster and film smoother.

·      Music- Part where locker made loud bang, had to measure time from start to first bang, first bang to second bang, from second bang to end of scene 1.

·      Took long time putting bang at exactly the right time.

Scene 2-

·      Having the camera move through the bush was easier than expected to do, and I think that it’s a really cool, unique shot.

·      Getting the play doe man to walk down the walk way was much harder than anticipated. Took a very long time, eventually got the idea to have him walk and cut at different stages as it was taking to long to shoot.

Scene 3-

·      This was reasonably simple as the play doe could stick onto the stairs allowing him to do backflips and climb the stairs.

·      The breathing was also simple movement too.

·      I found the breathing very well done and realistic.

Scene 4-

·      Trying to get the play doe man to run through the dirt in the bush was very difficult as the dirt at this point was thick and soggy as it was just raining. This made it harder to do the running properly.

·      I ended up just dragging him through the dirt while moving his arms to make it seem like he was still walking properly.

Scene 5-

·      The last scene was very simple to shoot. Most difficult part was the special effects of him smiling (and that was probably the easiest special effects I had to do for the whole film).