Stage Combat!

     Hey Cambridge! Obviously with filming comes what actors have to do, and obviously in a spy film, we'll need plenty of combat. Now teaching stage combat to people who have NEVER done it before is incredibly difficult but I didn't find troubles for the most part. Most of my actors are in theatre so they've taken previous lessons on this but others... have never done it before.

    Particularly my main actor, Enzo, who plays Thomas in my film opening had never even been on camera before or acted in anything. After the first time I saw him read the script and I met with him about the film, I knew he was a perfect fit and I'm so happy he's gotten into the role well.

    This one specific scene I was able to film with him and one of my stunt actors, Stephanie, really showed that he knew how to adapt to the scenarios around him. 

In this scene, Stephanie had to jump onto Enzo's back and practically beat him in the head, Enzo then had to fight her off of him and punch her. With the use of a very odd angle for me, the punch looked REAL! And the use of different angles used for the jumping scene, the fighting seemed a lot longer than I had filmed, which I honestly loved since these fight scenes were a lot for the actors, physically. Using high schoolers definitely makes this vision more challenging but I chose the right people.