Fighting scene shooting

One of the major events from our storyboard was the fighting scene between the villain, The Infinitive and the hero, Topaz Spectre. We tried to think of a suitable location and came up with many suggestions including the beach, the forest, a golf course and a field. We wanted an area which would be empty, as [WRITE RESEARCH BACKING UP]. As we live on an Island, we are very lucky to have a wide range of different sceneries which are very close to our base point. For example, the firestone copse, where we decided to film this scene, is here and is only 5 minutes walk from mine, and also the actor who plays The Infinitve's houses. We are also lucky as a pair that I have a car, so nowhere is too far for us and we don't have to plan to public transport which would be getting incresingly difficult, especially as it is starting to get darker earlier.

We went straight to the scene after school to give us optimum filming time before the light vanished. However, you can see from these pictures, one of which is before we shot, and one of which is from after, that the light did get significantly smaller during our filming.

However, I think that we managed to get the majority of our shots done before dark got too bad, and if any of the shoots are a little too dark we can lighten them up in After Effects.

The actress who plays Topaz Spectre/Georgia Murphy spent the summer of 2011 at the NYCDA (The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts?) where one of the courses there was stage combat. This is one of the reasons that we picked her in the audition process that we staged. She taught the actor how to do stage combat, to make it look like there was actually a realistic fight happening. I am quite impressed with our final shoots for this scene, as I think it looks really realistic.