Second Day of Filming

The second day of filming has gone as smoothly as the first day of filming, there was a slight change of plan as the manager of the diner asked if we could move everything forward one hour but this didn’t massively affect our film. There was also a slight change of roles this time as I had to play an extra in the film Beth had to take over with the sound recording as obviously I couldn’t record and be in shot at the same time. Overall I’m happy with how the filming has gone.

My role did return to normal on the second half of the shoot though as we moved on to record the staircase scene and the voice over, it was only during the voice over that we realised there was some static coming through on the recording. We are hoping that this doesn’t affect the film too much as it has gone undetected until now and if it is only for the voice over we may be able to solve it in post-production.

First Day Filming & Gathering Sounds

Our first day of filming has gone incredibly well, although we had a fair few worries when we realised we didn’t have nearly as much space as we thought we did we worked around that as much as we could. Our actors really did suit the characters as much as Amy had said they did, I’m looking forward to see how it looks after Post-production. Although we weren’t recording the voice over this time, I did make sure to record most scenes so that we sync sounds just in case Ellie wanted to play around with them a bit. We all chipped in together when it came to setting up the set and thanks to the organisation of our producer we all knew what jobs we had to do and the time limit we had to do them in, my group were highly organised during this filming session and once again I am proud to be a part of this group.

Ellie’s gone over the sound recordings I got during the shoot and has highlighted what sounds we still need to get, we have discussed which sounds we can get outside of the shoot and which ones we could probably create ourselves.

Myself, Chris and Ellie have been out recording the sounds we could get outside of Sundays filming; these sounds included things such as street and restaurant atmos sounds and the sound of a door opening.

Last Meeting

The first day of filming is quickly approaching and we still don’t have an office set ready, despite all our best efforts we have been unable to acquire one. As a result we have decided to film in Chris’ flat hopefully with some clever camera and lighting placement we can disguise it as an office space. We have had one final meeting where we have finalised some details and finished up some last pre-production details such as going over the developed storyboards and writing up a sound list for what sounds we need for each shot. We’ve also gone over the floor plans Chris drew up and so we were all clear where everything was meant to be.

Gathering Props

We all spent the weekend gathering the finishing touches needed for our production, this included gathering different props that we still hadn’t acquired for the shoot. We also continued to search for an office space to film in, as we were told the studio wouldn’t work for what we wanted. Alongside the missing office set we also encountered some bad news of our lead actor may not be able to film on the days we had scheduled anymore, there are two possible alternative dates which may work for him that he is checking at the minute. On the bright side we have received news that we have equipment for filming on the 13^th.