FMP 'Endure' gas mask shoot

For the final shot of the film we decided that we needed something foreboding, something that suggests there's much more to this disaster than what meets the eye in the film. It also needed to suggest that there's more that world that is yet to be explored, and since we plan on expanding this film into a series we felt it was necessary to include this after credits scene. As such we discussed the idea of having a figure in large hazardous material suit, who walks out amongst various bits of rubble and wreckage, within the destruction he finds a blade, the same blade that we the character of Tom pickup and use earlier in the film.



Fortunately we had a location full of rubble already prepared; Alex's backyard which was undergoing some minor renovation, however before we went to the location we needed to prepare the costume. For the gas mask we borrowed an old mask from one of our tutors Jo Conlon and initially we wanted to borrow an overall from the construction areas of college, but they didn't have any available at the time, we instead decided to go to a local hardware store and buy a suit from there along with some latex gloves to suit the look.



When we arrived at the location there was an immediate problem in that all the rubble had already been packed away into bags, this meant that we had to unpack all the rubble and arrange it in a way that was suitable to the tone we needed, after that Jordan Gott donned the costume and we began filming. Alex was on camera whilst I operated the sound equipment, we shot five takes before I realised upon watching them back that we really needed to use a tripod in order to get the required stability and framing, takes six and seven were much more representative of what we had in mind so we wrapped up filming and moved on to taking some pictures for the exhibition catalogue.

 

We took a range of pictures for the catalogue but these two were the ones we liked the most, we eventually decided on the second image and that is the one we submitted.