Production Diary

I will keep my blog updated with information about filming, I will use this post as a Production Diary and comment on our progress of filming, and how things did and didn't go according to plan. Obviously there will be days where things do not go according to plan, and I need to report on this so that I can look back and see what went wrong, in order to stop it happening again.

Monday 23rd November: Today we did a lot of test shots in both the locations. It was a very productive day of filming because we were able to see our locations from the eye of the camera and have a much better idea of all the shots that would look good. We recorded all the footage and this can now be seen on the Other Style Notes and Test Footage post.

Tuesday 24th November: Today we managed to film all of the shots that are set on the moor. To do this we first had to collect a few propps for the camping site and then set this up, this took longer than expected and we found ourself fighting with time as the sun would soon set and lighting would be poor. We managed to film it all in perfect light though and took a lot of diffrent shots from each scene so that we had a lot to work with for editing puposes. I am very happy with our progress today, but having looked back on the footage, I have realised I do need to take some more shots of the central protagonist walking.

Thursday 26th November: Today we filmed the scenes from inside the house, and all in all it was not a very productive shooting at all, the actress we used was not quite good enough to create what I wanted, but in terms of learning, we learnt a lot today about how to contruct the scenes in the house, and even though we will need to now shoot it again, I am confident we can get some high quality footage. The props we managed to find today were very good and I think they connote exactly what we want them to.


Friday 4th December: Today we filmed all of the more scenes again because unfortunately we lost some of the footage taken from previous shootings and because we were not completely happy with previous footage shot. The filming went very well and we managed to re-film all bad and lost footage, and even managed to shoot some more shots of our central protagonist running through the moors. The shooting we got done is of a much better quality, and now (Friday 4th December) we are going to look at all the footage shot so far and create a rough cut to be posted on the blog.