Filming

This weekend we are filming. I have gone on SISO and booked all video equipment that will be required this weekend, 2 HMC Cameras, 2 tripods and 3 30 Watt lights. Oscar will be in charge of booking out Audio equipment, as he is in charge of sound.
We have organised exactly when we are filming what scenes and what locations we are using. As Kate is art direction, she was in charge of going to these locations and making sure we are able to use them, as director, I made sure she did this. On Friday 28th we shall be filming in the halls of residence, from 12pm. The next day we shall be filming in the lounge, the restaurant scene and anything else we may need to film in there. I hope to get everything filmed in those two days and maybe even start editing on the Sunday, if not, we have Sunday to carry on filming, however, if filming isn't completed this weekend, we will be behind on schedule and will no longer have that spare week at the end, so we have to make sure we are all prepared to film.

The Result:-

Filming was completed over the weekend, Sunday included. Everyone involved had their own copy of the script, I made numerous notes on mine telling me what shots would work best a certain points and then split the script into two days.
Day one, Friday, didn't go as well as planned, but was still a day in which things got done. It took a lot longer to get the actual room set up than we thought, getting the lighting right took quite a while and finding a good place to put the boom mic was reasonably difficult too.
Our actors weren't fully confident with the script and found it even more difficult on camera, this is something I probably should've anticipated, and the next time I organise filming days I will be sure to include more time as a just in case, better to have more time, than not enough.
Day two was a success, everything that I wanted to get filmed on that day, was filmed in plenty of time, I think this was probably because it was in the University Lounge, there was already reasonably good lighting, and as for audio, we had learned from our mistakes the day before and were able to set it up much faster.
Day three was used to film the bits that weren't completed on the Friday, so I am very happy that I gave myself a little bit of lee way just in case.