Filming Our Indoor Scenes

We are planning to film the rest of our family orientated life tomorrow night. We are planning to capture footage for the romantic meal scene, sofa scene and the argument scene. We decided to include an argument scene as we think by showing the negative side of the successful like with Lucas stressed out at work as well as being lone, we felt it would be fair to connote the negative aspects of a relationship.

As all these scene are at the same location; one of our houses we have planned to film them all on the same evening as it is convenient. We shouldn't be faced with any problems as it is inside and therefore we will not be affected by the weather.

Analysis Of Our Footage From The Weekend

At the weekend we filmed part of our short film, however we didnt manage ro film as much as we intended to because members of our production had other important comitments. We managed to keep on schedule up untill 2pm capturing  the train station scene, beach scene and dog walking scene.The weather on sunday was great for filming and therefore our outdoor scenes were successful. We knew that we may have some difficulties filming at the train station as its a public area and our longest scene.

As we were faced with a few problems we may decide to re shoot certain parts of the train scene. The first problem we were faced with was when a member of the public ruined a clip of Lucas stepping of the train by waving at the camera; this clip was hard to capture anyway as the trains didnt come very often.Another problem we came across was that in our planning stage we had planned for the platform to be busy and therefore capture footage of Lucas weaving through people; however when we got to the platform it was much quieter therefore we were unable to capture certain shots. The last problem we were faced with was that the sound of the trains overpowered our dialogue and therefore we are going to have to record the sound and dub it over. 

Plans For Filming This Weekend

We are planning to film a large section of our short film this weekend below is a table of our planned schedule. We have looked at the weather for Sunday it is expected to be sunny therefore we have planned to get most of out outdoor scenes done first. We have scheduled more time for the train station scene as this is our largest scnene; also by this will make sure we arent rushed and that we are able to get enough footage with a variety of shots in the time scale.

Time	Scene	Characters Needed
8am – 12pm	Train station scene	Lucas and Grace
12pm- 1pm	Beach Scene	Lucas and Grace
1pm – 2pm	Dog walk scene	Lucas and Grace
2pm – 3pm	Romantic meal scene	Lucas and Grace
3pm – 4pm	Sofa scene	Lucas and Grace
4pm – 5pm	Argument scene	Lucas and Grace
5pm – 6pm	Opening the letter	Lucas and Grace
6pm – 7pm	Pub scene	Lucas and Grace

Our New Actor

As our previous actor wasn't very reliable we had to re-cast a new actor to play the part of Lucas. We needed to find someone quickly as we were already behind schedule.Our new actor is Sam Keep a good friend of our actress Aimee Richardson this is good as we know they will have good on screen chemistry; this will help create a good verisimilitude.

Grace and Lucas in casual/family life



Our new actor in the role of Lucas in casual/family life



Our new actor in the role of Lucas in his successful life

Complications In Filming

We had arranged to have completed all our filming by now as we were hoping to capture all our footage over the Christmas holiday however our main actor was unreliable and unable to film on the dates we had agreed. Therefore we have now found a replacement who we think will be suitable for the part and more committed to the filming schedule.

As we have a new actor we have to reshoot all our previous scenes; this has behind schedule however we have planned our filming dates and we hope to capture all our footage by the beginning of February 2011.

Dog Walking Scene (Problems) - Vlog

Filming Dates and Deadlines

Below is a table of our filming schedule and the dates we hoped to have filmed by.

SCENE	DATE	TIME	ACTORS NEEDED
Dog Walk	Fri 3rd Dec	9-10 (period 1 and 2)	Jack & Aimee
Work/Office	Wed 8th Dec	Period 1 and 2	Jack
Mansion	Thurs 9th Dec	To be decided	Jack
Proposal	Mon 15th Dec	Period 1 and 2	Jack & Aimee
Normal House	Wed 15th Dec	Period 1 and 2	Jack & Aimee
Train Station	Mon 27th Dec	10am onwards	Jack & Aimee

Stage in production	Date to be completed by
Filming	27th Dec
Editing	24th Jan
Auxiliary tasks	18th Feb
Evaluation activities	18th March