Finally, Our First Shoot!

Having tried for days to sort out casting, meeting as a group time and time again morning until night in the hopes of getting something done, we have finally settled on casting a friend who is not an actor, but has played a couple of roles in a crew member's previous projects and has something of a knack for it, at least.

Now that we've got somebody to play our protagonist, we set up in Aaron's flat to shoot the second half of scene 1, after the protagonist has taken acid. Setup took a long time, but once it was done I was pleased with the results. We hung all kinds of fabric from the ceiling, and filled the room with smoke from a smoke machine. To top it off, we projected digital visualisations from a digital video projector onto various surfaces, to give the impression they were shifting and changing.

We used green paper as greenscreen on the window, to facilitate our transition in POV through the window into a sequence of psychedelic patterns. We also put small pieces of green paper on the actor's glasses, with the intention of keying more psychedelic patterns onto them in certain shots.