The shooting day:

The day began with a brief discussion about what we actually wanted to do and we changed our idea (shown in the storyboard) again to a more simple but stronger image of a sucide of a person in a mental hospital. Instead of runnig along corridors, trying to escape, we decided to have it more 'peaceful' and less hectic. We wanted to film a guy (James Burke) throwing paper that represented banknotes, behind him the blue sky, we wanted the audience to not know until the end, what was going to happen and how high the building actually was he was standing on. We were well prepared for the shooting day, Lara and me made a dummy the week before it and she made a 'mental home'-sign and organised some costumes for the shoot. We had blue-cards for our actors and we were even lucky with the weather.

We started shooting at the bottom outside the theatre, with James on a table, so that we could film him jumping somehow, that it looked realistically. We did some tracking round shots, close ups, mid shots of him, throwing the paper and one shot were he was jumping over the camera.
That perticular shot worked very well, because it made the jump look very realistic.
The shooting location worked really well, because it looked like James was standing very up high. We were very lucky with the waether because it was very sunny and we had nice wind which was good for the falling of the paper. Later on we did shoot the paper falling down, James throwing the paper, tracking shots of the paper and shots following the paper. We also did two siluhette shots from behind filming the back of James and his jump. The most fun part was the thing we filmed after that: the fall of the Dummy named 'Billy' by our team. We did throw him about 6 times and tried out different things, like a bellyflop.

The costumes worked really well, as they were very simple, but effective. James had a similar jeans to the Dummy and the same jacket for both of them. The boots of the dummy worked also very well, because they gave him more weight and made his fall look more realistic.
James Burke made the right acting choices and he was a good choice. We only used natural lighting of the sun and no extra lighting, as we filmed outside.

We completely had seperate sound, because our film is silent (nobody speaks in it) you can only haer the wind. We also had to record the sound later, because there were rehearsals for the concert in the theatre. We worked well as a team, my job in the group was mainly changing ideas, creating new ideas and Lara and me organised nd designed the props (for example created the dummy).

All in all we changed our idea from the beginning completely, but I am very happy with the endresult and it was a very good shooting day.