Week 11: Shooting Begins

We picked up our gear at 10:30am Monday morning and went to our first location (My House). 

Due to the weather and location, some of the script needed to change in order to make it easier for us to portray our story in the location we had. 

We began shooting at around 11:30 and didn't finish until 3:30pm. It felt like such a long day but it was so much fun. It was my first real attempt at directing and I feel that I got the hang of it very quickly. 

Everyone was very patient and it was learning curb for both actors and us as a group.

We were all very tired but very happy with the days work and ere excited to finally have started shooting. 

We are shooting again Thursday night starting at 5pm. We again have had to change the script as we needed to film out side a pub but the few we enquired to had policies in place that prohibited us from filming there. So we therefore altered our script to allow us to film in a car park instead. 

Hopefully lighting wont be a huge issue. Fingers crossed. 

Week 10 - Script Read through

As we are getting closer and closer to our due date of our Location Production we decided to organise a meet and greet with all of our actors so we can read through the script and  answer any question the actors have.

We met on Tuesday for an hour and everyone was excited to be participating in the short film.

We did a read through and explain the emotions we want out of each scene and how we imagined it. We then decided on costumes, make up ensured the production schedule was suitable for everyone. 

The meeting went smoothly and I left feeling a lot more confident about our final production. The actors experience ranges from their first film to their 10th but they each seem very enthusiastic and very helpful. They have organised to meet in their own time to rehears their scenes with each other which is a great sign.

Lets hope the shooting goes as smoothly next week :)