From here on in my Blog is the production diary for my shoot... (mainly so I remember to do one)
Weds - First day of the shoot
Scenes to shoot: 4, 6, 16, 21, 21a
Location: St Michael's High School
Got to location early and made friends with the caretaking staff. They were very helpful. Lugged all the equipement inside with the help of a few cast members. Beth (1st AD) and I chose the room to shoot in which was actually a geography room, we wanted a maths room but they were all being recarpeted. SO, we had to make do.
After setting up for the first scene, 4, I realised that it was actually scene 21 that we had set up for, but told Beth it was 16. So 21 became 16 and 16 became 16a. Scenes 4 and 6 were untouched numerically.
The opening shot to scene 21 (now 16) was lovely, but took 2 hours! We were way behind schedule. I then recieved a phone call from Steven Catterall, playing Mr Dimple. He had just been told he had to go into hospital to get a cast put on his arm! So, as he was in ALL THE SCENES today we had to rework the whole schedule. I was surprised I wasn't crying by this point.
Ben (camera man) had to leave at 11.30am which left me to then take over camera work and Beth to become the director. I felt more comfortable then as I prefer to be more hands on but I really missed the chance to look at the acting not just the shot. So I was pleased Beth was there to keep her eye on the artisitness, as it were.
The bruise makeup looked OK, if I do say so myself. We skimmed over a hell of a lot of continiuty (as we were two crew members down - continuity Jo Calander who is on holiday til Sat and Ben who had left).
We managed to shoot a large amount of the stuff we were going to anyway, we are about a scene and a bit (7 set upsish) behind. Which is a bit worrying so I am going to reschedule some of tomorrow's exteriors to the late afternoon so we get more time in the classrooms.
Phew - what a day - one member of cast ended up in a cast, a missing cameraman, the heaviest amount of stuff I've ever had to lug up Harbour Lane in a small car! and two lights dying... great stuff.
BRON
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Weds - First day of the shoot
Scenes to shoot: 4, 6, 16, 21, 21a
Location: St Michael's High School
Got to location early and made friends with the caretaking staff. They were very helpful. Lugged all the equipement inside with the help of a few cast members. Beth (1st AD) and I chose the room to shoot in which was actually a geography room, we wanted a maths room but they were all being recarpeted. SO, we had to make do.
After setting up for the first scene, 4, I realised that it was actually scene 21 that we had set up for, but told Beth it was 16. So 21 became 16 and 16 became 16a. Scenes 4 and 6 were untouched numerically.
The opening shot to scene 21 (now 16) was lovely, but took 2 hours! We were way behind schedule. I then recieved a phone call from Steven Catterall, playing Mr Dimple. He had just been told he had to go into hospital to get a cast put on his arm! So, as he was in ALL THE SCENES today we had to rework the whole schedule. I was surprised I wasn't crying by this point.
Ben (camera man) had to leave at 11.30am which left me to then take over camera work and Beth to become the director. I felt more comfortable then as I prefer to be more hands on but I really missed the chance to look at the acting not just the shot. So I was pleased Beth was there to keep her eye on the artisitness, as it were.
The bruise makeup looked OK, if I do say so myself. We skimmed over a hell of a lot of continiuty (as we were two crew members down - continuity Jo Calander who is on holiday til Sat and Ben who had left).
We managed to shoot a large amount of the stuff we were going to anyway, we are about a scene and a bit (7 set upsish) behind. Which is a bit worrying so I am going to reschedule some of tomorrow's exteriors to the late afternoon so we get more time in the classrooms.
Phew - what a day - one member of cast ended up in a cast, a missing cameraman, the heaviest amount of stuff I've ever had to lug up Harbour Lane in a small car! and two lights dying... great stuff.
BRON
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