Production

Shooting Day 3 

Trials and Tribulations

I’ll separate the review of this day into two posts because we spent most of the day handling problems then the evening actually filming.

Here are all the problems we faced during shooting day 3 and how we dealt with them.

K-bar didn’t get back to me and because time was getting on I knew we would’ve had to film in the late afternoon and that the music would be too loud for filming in the bar.

We found out Tom, the actor, wasn't free until after 6 so that cut off a big chunk of our possible shooting time.

Rutherford closes at 6, which was our back-up venue, so we couldn't use that venue either.

Earlier on in the week I had thought up a back-up plan in my head. Once I had found out that our other venues weren't going to work out I started to develop the back-up idea and created a screenshot script and some extra potential overlays. This back-up idea involved a house party.

As the kitchen has windows we needed to shoot at night because you wouldn't really have a realistic house party during the day, so we had to wait till after 7:30 to film.

Harry and I realised how hard it was to actually film without a budget, we went to essentials and I bought two litres of coke in case we couldn't do one take wonders in the drinking shots and to use as background props, we didn't need to buy alcohol as I had enough at home already. Harry bought some Doritos also for background prop purposes.

We needed some extras so I asked a few groups of people I knew and managed to get two girls and two guys for the first and second to last scenes.

I was starting to get worried about the shoot because Moritz was leaving for Germany soon and needed to get ready, his parents were in England waiting for him. I explained to him on Facebook that we needed him because he was the best at using the camera; I think I got through to him as he replied that he was going to come to the shoot so we arranged to do it at 7:30 when he and Tom were free. Harry had an Asda shopping delivery scheduled between 8 and 10, so he couldn't be at the shoot. We tried to get in contact with Luke and found out later that he was ill so also couldn't make it. Olivia, another actor, also couldn't make it so I filled in as the girl in the shoot.

Thankfully at around 8 Moritz, Stephen, Tom and I were all at the meeting place and we could get started.

When Tom arrived, at around 8, I realised a massive continuity problem…he had had a haircut. In other films this could have been a massive problem but I thought and explained to the others that because our film is in a video game style we could just include an overlay in between scene 2 and 3 saying something like ‘Night-time haircut chosen’ or ‘new hair cut selected’ and they liked the idea.

The previous post shows the back-up idea I came up with that follows a similar story to the original just with a few changes; the next post will be what we did during the evening of this hectic but eventually successful day.