I was asked to come in earlier at 8:45 to have a meeting with the rest of my team and was surprised when I heard the email the actors sent to our teacher. They sent a complaint about our lack of professionalism and respect during the three filming days. As a team, we sent an apology on my email address since I'm the producer and we've asked if our reimbursement of £20 to each actor would be acceptable

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As seen by my production page, I thought filming was going really well and the actors were having fun. But after further reflection of the situation, I realise that we were very unprofessional. On the last day of production we finished filming early and I thought about asking if the actors wanted anything but they were packing up to leave so I wrongfully assumed they didn't want anything

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I thought about writing back to them that we both agreed the call time was at 11:30 on Wednesday and it was never 12:00, but didn't include it in the email since we're apologising to them and it'd be wrong of me to bring it up

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Moving on, today is the first day of editing our first draft of our short film. I offered to transfer the footage of the last filming day to our camera operator as he wasn't here on that day, so I had to start editing a bit later than everyone else. I was still able to finish my first draft today though

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While editing I realise there are certain bits of the footage that I disliked, I realised I hated the uneven lighting in the interrogation scenes (except from Joie's scenes since both sides are the same colour, this also meant that scene didn't really fit with the two others lighting-wise) and the green lighting we used was way too strong. The interrogation scenes shouldn't be too difficult to fix, but I don't think I can get rid of the green lighting really. Its especially more frustrating since I realised the natural colours of the house were perfectly fine and would even align with Wes Anderson's usual lighting style too. The whole team is the lighting operator but I feel mostly at fault since I helped with the lights. I think we all got too caught up with the movie having to have colours, I wish I realised that earlier since we obviously can't reshoot the scenes now

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I also feel like knowing that the actors hated working on this really dampens my mood with this project as well, its very demotivating to me. I'll try not to let it affect my work too much since at the end of the day, we all want it to turn out well still