'The Jump'

tom falling from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

Here is a short movie clip of Tom Bailey when out location shooting to see how we were going to film the character of Joe committing suicide. We are planning to plant a green screen behind the wall and use chroma key to place footage of the real surroundings of the viaduct to make the location more realistic so the audience don't know that Joe is at a different location. I think this shot is effective because we see a close up of his feet leaving the surface and then see his body fall - in reality, he is just jumping off a wall only a meter off the ground onto grass - a soft landing. This means there are no serious health and safety issues which arise from this, and means that we can connote a serious and effective death without the need to put ourselves and the actors in danger.