Shoot Day 3

Last night we had a major problem as our mum became ill, and wasn’t well enough to act in our film. This was a major problem as she only told us 6 hours before we started filming. We couldn’t film any other time, as today was the last day that Louie was available. As soon as we found out we all did our best to try and find another actor who could play the role, I messaged loads of drama societies even ones outside Sheffield too. We original wanted an older actor but got to the point were we where pretty desperate, Ellie had also contacted lots of people on Star Now.

The final day only me, Beth and Kirean could make the shoot, before Louie arrived we all met up and talk about what we would do if we couldn’t find an actor, we would still hoping that one of the people on Star Now would contact Ellie. We still didn’t have a mum actor when Louie arrived about a couple of minutes a women called Hayley got back in contact in Ellie, she was a little younger then we first wanted but to be honest that didn’t matter as we had found an actor with pervious experience. 

When Louie arrived we quickly briefed him on the situation, how things hadn’t totally gone to plan and the shooting schedule for the day. We start filming pretty much straight away, although they where only three of use, it made things slight easier, on pervious shoots everyone contributed to how each scene should be filmed which is good but it takes a lot of time. When it was just the three of use, we worked a lot more efficiently. The first scene we filmed we only needed Louie, which was good, as the Mum actor wasn’t arriving till 2. The first scene we where just re filming some of the shots in our first shoot where we see Louie leaving the room, we now see Louie grab his coat before leaving, this was basically to help with continuity. This was the first shoot where I didn’t have any problems with the microphone, the sound was clear and we had sorted out the clapperboard issues that we had in previous shoots.

The mum arrived at 2 and we had just finished filming the scenes with Louie, before filming the last and possible the most important scene, we ran through the scrip a couple of times, where Louie and Haley could just go through they lines. When listening we decided to change one of Louise lines and get rid of another all together. I was happy with how it sounded, although I do think Louie felt a little bit uncomfortable.

We went up stairs and set up the lights, the first shot we filmed was the wide where we see Haley come into the room and sit down next to Louie, we had a bit of problem with lighting/positing as the room was so small Hayley was stepping over lights it was a bit of a struggle getting from one side of the room to another.  We did a couple of takes of Hayley just sitting down before we started to run through the scrip. They where a couple of mistakes but that was understandable as she had only just been given the script, after a couple of takes it become more natural and it didn’t look as awkward.  We filmed this scene using two cameras, one focusing on Louie and the other on Haley.

After we finished filming this scene we had a little break and moved the equipment downstairs for our three people interaction in the kitchen. It took a little while to sort out the logistic and work out where the cameras where going to be positioned as the arch way was very narrow and we couldn’t fit us and all the equipment in that small area. It didn’t help that it was getting dark and we only had an hour left before Louie was getting picked up. It was quite an awkward position to film, but I think we did our best considering. The rest of filming ran pretty 

smoothly but as we where running out of time we forgot about the clapperboard again which I new was going to be a pain in the edit.