Location: 57 Ramillies Crescent
Time of day: Evening 4:30pm - 7:30pm
Crew Present: Dan, Deanna, Cameron, Charlotte.
Cast Present: Rebecca Chapman, Ryan Witton, Millie Russel
Equipment:
DSLR Camera + Tripod
Tracking Dolly
Sound Recording Kit
Large & Small Reflectors
LED Light
Transport
The equipment was transported via car for safety and the fact it was too bulky to carry, myself and my team including cast met at school and walked down to our filming location as conveniently its only 15 minutes down the road.
Summary of the day
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| Deanna applying make up to the actress |
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| FOCUS PRACTICE |
Today started awkwardly with small talk but eventually the ice broke and we could get down to business with ease, today was very much an eye opener for how the rest of filming will go! and it looks like we're going to be travelling a very bumpy road for a while but we shall manage with a little blood, sweet and tears.
We started off the night with getting our set's ready, this means setting up the "romantic meal' dining table and taking pictures of where the props were as this would stop continuity errors later. The actresses and actor went upstairs to get changed ready for filming while we did this to save time.
We experienced some technical issues with lighting and location size, we quickly realised at this point that our storyboard wouldn't match our finished product for shot type so we shall have to change our story board later on once we have established which shots will need changing.
We decided to film scene 2 today as this is the bulkiest of all our scenes and the argument/death scene making it the most crucial to film and get correct. By kicking off with this scene we will be setting the expectation of work effort for the rest of our filming. We quickly realised we wouldnt be able to use Ryan as our main male actor as he wasn't ready to commit the effort meaning a lot of reshoots would be needed to perfect shots.
We started filming with Rebecca first at the dining table (shot 22 - 24) Rebecca was perfect and receptive to our needs she had no protests with re-shoots either, which was good considering shot 22 took 3 takes because of disliked camera positioning and lighting and shot 24 took 5 takes because we needed real emotion from Rebecca as this is the shot where 'Richard' makes his entrance from being extremely late home from 'work'.
Crew roles for our first day
Deanna
Deanna was the butter on the bread today, telling us which shots we would be doing and deciding how the girls make-up would best suit their personalities, she helped me when i needed help with the lighting as well and helped direct Cameron for the best cinematic angle on certain shots.
Daniel
Dan was in charge of sound recording ensuring we have clear sound that we can use and diagetic sound that we will need, for example the door slamming. He was also our group nominated PA (private joke) but considering we were in Dan's house we felt it best for him to make the cups of tea and food.
Cameron
Cameron was in charge of the cinematography and shot types as his past experience in AS is more developed than the rest of us, Cameron also managed to master the focus and focus pulls on the new 600D DSLR camera so he was rightfully in charge of most of the camera work.
Myself
As for myself I was in charge of the lighting conditions of the set so it wouldn't affect the camera quality, I also dabbled in filming and advice in directing shot types or actors performance on set to minimise the need for shot retakes.
Overall today while we started off well we have come to the realisation that the storyboard and script will have to be changed if we are to continue filming in our present location.
