"The Hangover" Practical Task - Hotel Filming



16/10/2011
Today we will be filming the scene in a hotel, we're shooting at Park Farm Hotel in one of their hotel rooms. Alice rang up and organised this earlier in the week. In this scene we will have:
The Father of the Bride - played by my Dad
The Mother of the Bride - originally played by Alice's Mum but she had to do work so my Mum is now playing her
Bridesmaids - Played by myself, Georgie and Beatrice
Tracey (Bride) - played by Megan's friend Vicki.

The Wedding Dress and 3 Bridesmaid dresses

Megan brought her sister's wedding dress and Lizzie brought 3 bridesmaids dresses so we shot this first, although this shot took longer than we originally thought it would as it took a while to get the lighting right, we still don't have enough natural light on the shot but we hope to add more light in editing.
We then moved the furniture round in the room so we could replicate the placement of furniture in the film as much as possible.
We then blocked the scene whilst Georgie, Lizzie, Beatrice and Megan filmed the van scene when you see someone unloading flowers from the van.
We then filmed the scene with the Bride talking to Phil on the phone and before that with the Bride and the Mother speaking.
We filmed this from different angles, one of the angles if from the back of the fathers head, this shot is only scene for a couple of seconds, so we filmed this bit with no audio then when editing we plan to take the audio of the father speaking and lay it over the top of the scene.

My Dad and myself as Father of the Bride and Bridesmaid