Production Photos (11th October)
Production Log 1
Filming is going much better than I thought it would, there was a rocky start since we accidentally went to the wrong house at first and we arrived at 11:20 (before today I said the call time was 10:15am, then I said it was 10:30am when I realised we'd be in pre-production a little later today)
The lighting equipment is extremely heavy to carry, we had to take turns to carry it when we were walking to the house. We got a car ride back to the college from my mother, I'll ask if she can drop us off by our location or bring us back to the college for the next two days since carrying the lighting equipment was a huge detriment to us getting to the location and may be a risk
Daily Diary 11/10
Today was the first day of filming, we have two more days left to film everything. I have to finish my draft for my personal statement for UCAS tomorrow, I also have to do a call sheet for tomorrow
Once we got set up in the house, filming was very fun and went smoothly. The actors were understanding when we came in late and were fun to work with. Its a little hard to find anything to say when the production log pretty much says everything for me already
Production Photos (12th October)
Production Log 2
To get to the filming location and back to the college, we've decided we'll take an Uber instead of walking. As mentioned before this is because the lighting equipment is extremely difficult to walk with and strained whoever was carrying it. I put it as part of the risk assessment but I may have underestimated how bad it truly was
Filming is still going well, we'll have enough time to record the last two scenes tomorrow. We did a retake of scene 2 shot shot 4 since the director said the stabiliser on the camera was visible but it didn't take long at all. I agreed with the actors that the call time would be 11:30 but since we got there at around 10:00, it gave us an hour of freetime. I assumed the set up would take much longer since it took about 30 minutes yesterday but we finished it in around 10 minutes
For tomorrow we agreed the call time would be at 11:00 since it'd be better to have more time filming and we know we'll definitely be ready at that time. We also agreed that we could quickly do the shots of the detective's reaction to the interrogations before the actors got there since those shots only include him. I have a speaking role to film tomorrow so I have to read through the script and remember my lines
Daily Diary 12/10
Today was the second day of filming, tomorrow will be the last day. I have to make a call sheet for tomorrow
I'm a little nervous to act, especially since I have to shout for it. I'm also bad at memorising things but I only have a few lines so it shouldn't be that bad. I think filming is going pretty well still, I'm excited for when we'll be finished though
Production Photos (13th October)
Production Log 3
We finished filming much earlier than I thought we would, I thought we'd be there until 2pm at least but we finished at 12am. This isn't too surprising since we only had to film the last two scenes, this also gave us a lot more time to check footage. After comparing todays footage with the past two days, we realised todays footage was noticeably more darker. Its unfortunate but shouldn't be too difficult to fix since we can darken the previous footage and lighten today's footage
Like we said yesterday, we got to the location at 9:30 and filmed the detective's scenes first before the actors arrived. Despite this, we still took 30 minutes after the actors were already here to set up for the next scenes. This is mainly because all of the detective scenes we were recording were upstairs and we had to move downstairs, it also took a bit of time to think of a way to shoot the final scene since our camera operator wasn't here. The director planned to do a camera pan to the host but since we were all on camera that wasn't possible. We decided to do the scene in two shots instead. Other than that the fact that our camera operator wasn't here wasn't too much of a detriment
Daily Diary 13/10
Today is the last day of filming. By Wednesday I have to finish my second draft of my personal statement
Overall filming was fun, but I'm glad it was over with. I'm a little tired from having to film so much. I'm worried about how dark our shots from today are, I'm not sure if I'll be able to correct that in post. Looking back I realise I'm also not a fan of the lighting for a lot of shots in general, I think the green could've been toned down more