Location: 57 Ramillies Crescent
Time of Day: All Day (Day and Night)
Time filming started: 12:00pm
Time filming finished: 9:30pm
Scene: 2 & 3 Shots: 62-72 Interior, Exterior 43-50, Interior shot 5
Summary
Today started relatively early as we needed as much day light as possible to film Millie's (Stacey's) shots as she only had until 5 oclock before she had to leave us, this worked out fine for us as Stacey's shots we're all daylight shots anyway.
For the first half of the day Deanna and I left the boys to get on with the work, referring them to the storyboard for shot composition and explaining how it should look while we got on with changing the script. The reason Deanna and I were changing the end of the script was not only to give Stacey a bigger role but because a whole new ending had been thought up to our film and we really wanted to do that ending instead, so excitedly Deanna and I bounced up stairs to frantically write our ideas down while the boys Cam and Dan started filming shot 62 (a close up of Alex on the stairs playing with Alice's necklacke) and exterior shots of Stacey approaching the house and entering.
When we got to shot 69 Deanna and I had finished writing the script ending and we were back down stairs assisting with the filming. Shot 69 was a lot of shot reverse shots due to the characters having a conversation. We did this by setting up the camera behind Alex to start with and filmed Millie coming in through the door and then running through the complete conversation so that in editing we could cut it accurately. After that, we shifted the camera behind Millie and filmed Alex saying his parts and then walking off into the kitchen (shot 72).
We eventually got all of the day light scenes done and moved on to the night scenes of Alice and Richard, While Alex went to get changed into his costume for scene 2 Deanna did Rebecca's make up and we got the set clear and ready. We were doing the kitchen scene today where Richard smashes the photograph of him and Alice and the argument ends when she runs upstairs our plan was to finish this scene today and we achieved our plan, yay!
Of course it was a major safety issue to have Alex smash the glass, not just for his safety but for ours and Dan's dog's that was liable to step on a stray tiny shard of glass, so we took it outside and smashed it at the bottom of Dan's drive when it was wrapped in kitchen roll, Dan recorded the sound to use in the film and we faked Alex smashing the picture frame by having a non broken version for him to fake smash and changing to a reaction shot of Alice just before the picture connects with the corner of a washer, this will work effectively with the right editing i'm sure Dan and Cam will do an excellent job on it in the editing stage.
