Days of shoot

Looking back on both days of shooting I would say they both went pretty well and looking back on the footage I believe I got some pretty good footage to hopefully create the image I see in my head.

Day 1
Before I start on what happened on the actual day I want to just reflect on the issues I encountered two days before. The first issues was with my crew, my camera man wasn't in contact and was away home (out of Belfast) over the Easter break, so I had to get a last minute replacement and thankfully another boy (Matt) out of my class was not only able to come and shoot for me but also bring his own sound equipment which I was finding difficultly getting my hands on. Even though he had another shoot that day and we were on a bit of a time limit he stayed for the whole thing and we were able to complete the main parts on the first day and get better sound quality of the forest atmosphere on his equipment.
The second issue which was the big one that worried me because I went to so much trouble to replace my camera man, my actress had to drop out the day before shooting which meant I had to find a quick replacement also keeping in mind that the replacement would need to be a good psychical actress as that's what the performance was based on, it was how the story was told. However thanks to my past I was able to contact a friend (Laura), who I studied drama with and had worked with before in my A level moving image piece. So knowing how able to act and knowing her well as a person I was lucky to get her at such short notice and on both days she did a fantastic job.

So on terms of the first day shoot everything went smoothing, the weather was great, the location was empty so there was no interruptions and the cast and crew worked for 5 hours or more non stop and we were able to get all the forest scenes done with Matt being present. After we had lunch there was just myself, Laura and my other crew member (Eamon) left and we were able to get the house, abuse scene done in 2 hours meaning I had the whole structure of my film done.


Day 2
The second was mainly pick up shot and stuff I wanted to re-shoot as there were a few scene, mainly the abusive parts that I thought could have been a lot more violent and that's the key to getting the message of my story across. So Laura was happy to perform again but this time I had to control the camera myself as Matt and Eamon were busy on there own stuff which wasn't to big of an issue as I was happy to make to the shots as I seen them not  the way someone else did.
But once again the weather was brilliant similar to the first day so good continuation. We were able to complete the whole shoot in both location (forest and house) within 4-5 hours and I was able to look back at what I recorded then and there and see if it needed to do it again or not meaning I would have to come back to re-shoot for the third time.  

So overall I was very happy with my production shoots, on the days everything went smoothing there were no real complications and I didn't have my cast and crew waiting about for too long, keeping both them ad me happy.