Construction: kidnapping scene

During this scene, the husband is finally kidnapped by his boss and dragged away. Originally, this scene was not in the script as, at first, we felt it would be more effective if the film didn't show the disappearance, as it would make it more mysterious due to the fact that it would be up the audience's imagination of what happened to him. Nevertheless, we decided to film a kidnapping sequence in order for the film to make a little more sense.

In this scene, the boss is shown ambushing the husband. A struggle happens before the husband is dragged away. We see a shot of his feet before we see him tied up to a chair screaming for help. 

We achieved the shot of him being kidnapped by filming the actor playing the husband in the tunnel. We included an "over the shoulder" shoot in order to show off the experience better. We then had the actor playing the boss come from around the corner, depicting a struggle. We tried to shoot it as realistically as possible in order for it to not look staged as we couldn't make the actors hit each other. We covered up a lot of the hitting and mainly focused on the husband getting dragged away.

The shot of his feet was achieved by having a closeup of the husband's feet. We then dragged him away but never filmed it so that it showed us. This was so we could have an effective shot of him being dragged but not actually showing where he was getting dragged to, perhaps letting the audience be more in the husband's shoes of being unsure of where he's getting taken to. 

Finally, the scene with him being tied up was achieved in a number of different ways. We found a new location behind a shed in the woods near our school. We tied a simple knot to give the effectiveness of him being in an enclosed space and put a blindfold on him to give a more realistic edge to him being kidnapped.