Drama - Day 2 Shoot

Day 2 of the shoot again went really well even though we had to change location and only had 5 hours to get all the shots we needed, this was because the gallery was only available 10am - 3pm. Not wanting to lose any time we began setting up and shooting as soon as we could.

The gallery's representative also allowed us to film in part of the gallery where their was no copyright worry so therefore we could shoot however and wherever we wanted not worrying about getting the paintings in shot. As visual arts director this got me excited as there was some amazing paintings in the gallery that we could get in frame and make the scenes looks wonderful.

I got actors into costume as soon as possible while the rest of the crew set up the scene with camera positioning, framing and lighting. The actors knew their lines very well and needed very little rehearsal to get the performance me and Lucy (director) desired, which was great as it meant we could start shooting a lot sooner.

In the end we did not use lighting equipment as there was a large skylight in the ceiling giving off a nice source of natural light. Also the room had overall a warm glow on camera which I thought worked well with the situation of the scenes, reflecting the closeness between Jack and George. We only needed to use kino lighting for close up shots and they were just slightly darker than the other shots.

My role during shooting was again helping Ben (cinematographer) moving equipment for different camera positioning and framing. Also because Katie was not on set as she was editing together the scenes we shot on day 1 (which we all thought was an amazing idea as it allowed us to get the film together and finished a lot sooner), I was in charge of the clapperboard. I also discussed a few camera ideas with Ben (cinematographer) that I thought would look really good which he took in and shot a few.

We only encountered little problems during the shoot such as members of the public walking into the room during shooting (as the gallery was still open for the public), which meant having huge echoey creeks of doors opening and closing during dialogue. This just meant we had to shoot the scene again which was no problem. Another problem was the general echo the room created as it was a big hall and couldn't be helped. However, Stephen (sound) was confident that he could work on minimising the reverb when editing.