Rehearsal

During some free time we decided as a group to add in some rehearsals in order to make sure on the day of filming, we would know exactly what to do.

One main room we wanted to use as a therapist room we were un sure if we were able to use. Whilst waiting for the approval, we wanted to find a back up room which would be suitable. I decided to research what type of room a therapy room looks like. I discovered that the room used is usually white, with two comfortable chairs which looks very relaxing.

The room we originally wanted did not look like this, it looked more like an office. This is because there is a huge table with two chairs sitting opposite each other in a dark room. A stereotypical hypnotherapy room is white, with relaxation through the session being more informal due to the patient being able to lean back in their chair. The room is small which connotes the stereotypical fear of enclosure.

We looked at our script and thought the script was too simple. It is highly unlikely a hypnotherapist would just hand out prescript drugs. Therefore, we changed this part of the script to make the dialogue flow easily and it leaves the scene on a cliff hanger.

We decided to rehearse so we could pick out any in corrections along the way, as well as editing parts. Rehearsing was also an advantage due to being able to see if the camera angle we wanted to use worked effectively.

This is Alex practicing his lines and acting for when he plays the character Ryan when we properly film.

This is another scene where Alex has his breakdown. We wanted to use a low angle shot of Alex falling to the floor so we decided to test the shot to see how we would do it on film day. This is a good idea because it gives us a wide aspect of a backup plan in case this shot did not work. It is also les time consuming due to already practicing the shot.