Production Diary

DAY ONE - Thursday 23rd February 2012

I met up with Ellen and Lauren in the media classroom. I then went to get changed into my costume, while they prepared the equipment. Once set we left to walk through town towards our destination of our location. We met Hollie along the way to the location as she was running a bit late. 

*Fair Warning* If you ever have to play a Femme Fetale or a character that closely resembles one, be prepared to get some very disgusted and odd looks from citizens. 

We didn't have access to Jae (our male lead) as he was busy filming for someone else's opening sequence. So instead we decided to focus on how we should position the camera, where we should position it and also if it will look good and closely resemble our storyboard.

DAY TWO - Friday 24th February 2012

We did not film this day: instead we looked at the shots we had gathered from yesterday to see how they actually looked. From looking at the shots, we realised what we could and could not do, this resolved in us coming up with a new storyboard. 

DAY THREE - Tuesday 28th February 2012

To save time I prepared my hair & make-up at home, and brought my costume with me to college to change (I was not up for the dirty looks as I was travelling with public transport) along with my make-up bag (because I am a girl and we carry that thing everywhere!)

I met up with Hollie, Ellen, Lauren and Jae. The group went to get the camera, tape and tripod, along with the props while Jae and I got into our costumes.

Then we made our way to the location (which was the alley way behind the night clubs by the Parish Church.) As soon as we got there we set up and briefed Jae on what he should do and being a great actor he is he got right to it without any problems. We were filming just below a man's house, so therefore to seem polite (in my oh how appropriate costume) I asked his permission for us to film here, to which he did not object.
From what we learned from the Prelim task we decided to film everything more than once, and from different angles as well so when it came to editing we had enough footage to play around with. Due to our location we had to put up with the church clock timing every 15minutes, (which is in the shots we did not use.)

DAY FOUR - Thursday 1st March 2012

According to our shooting schedule we planned on filming the Chase Scene on this day. However we couldn't shoot, as our male protagonist was off filming scenes for his opening sequence. So we cancelled.

DAY FIVE - Friday 2nd March 2012

We had a production meeting where we went through our footage and began editing it together. We knew from this that we needed nothing else from this scene and would not have to re-schedule a re-shoot. At this point we decided that we did not want to film the "office scene" because we felt that ending to the allay way scene would leave the audience with more emotional depth and keep them wanting more.

DAY SIX - Thursday 8th March 2012

We planned on filming our final scene which was the chase scene between Scarlett and Garrett. However Jae (who plays Garrett) had a family emergency that morning and wasn't sure if he was going to make it in. So we told him to stay with his family and forget about filming, and if they were okay we could film tomorrow. He reassured us that he would be able to make tomorrow so we rescheduled. We had nothing else to do there for we worked on our blogs.

DAY SEVEN - Friday 9th March 2012  &DAY EIGHT - Tuesday 13th March 2012

For these two days we filmed our Chase scene. On Day Seven we practiced the shots we had written down to see how they would look on camera. On Day Eight it was serious filming, we knew exactly what we needed to do and got along with it. Lauren and I took charge of the camera while we filmed Jae's part. We used variations of shots to see which would look better (i.e just Garrett running, Just Scarlett running, and a shot where you could see them both.)

Once we had finished Jae's shots he left to film his next sequence, also Lauren had an appointment, which left Ellen and Hollie to take control of the camera and all our luggage while I stood in front of the camera and looked pretty... kidding I did help with positioning the camera correctly and lugging all our bags.

*Fair Warning* When filming in a public place (especially a street) be aware of the public who will interfere mainly because of a camera positioned on the street they will stop and wave towards the camera while you are filming and also they will shout "You're supposed to take you your clothes off" charming really. 

-p