Before i shot my film i decided to prepare my garage by going to B&Q and buying some matte black paint. I also bought a pack of rollers, so when i got back me and Andrew cracked on and painted the back walls and gave it a second coat. Once finished i began to make room for the lighting and camera equipment, i also found a problem as there was light breaking trough the door. So i then chose to get a dark towel and block out the light so i could capture a better image.
Overall i thought this was a good idea and it worked out well with no problems with light bouncing back off the walls though obviously we did have trouble with shadows of sorts. This really helped with my film and gave me a lot of time to shoot as i did not have a required time to leave.
So on Thursday i decided that i needed to start to shoot for my film. Yet i did want to shoot on the Wednesday as that was the best day as you can see from my weather report. But due to all the equipment being booked out i had to make do. So i started the day by getting all my equipment before hand and setting off to mine. Once we got to mine the first shot that took place was the out door scenes shot in front of my house. Establishing shot, tracking dolly shot & a few close ups were involved in this section of filming. Ethan was my Camera Op and Andrew was my Sound Op for this one which fared very well as they worked hard to achieve what i was asking of them.
So i moved on from here into the garage where i decided to shoot my scenes that were suppose to show my emotions and thoughts in my head with the lighting and other sorts. This went very well but did take a good amount of time which lead to the battery dying in which we decided to charge it up and head to Tesco for a break whilst it charged.
On our way back i told them the plan of action of what i had left to shoot. I contacted my actors that i would be using and was informed that they would not be ready until 4:30, so i decided to get the shots in my house that would lead to the end of the film leaving only there shots left to capture.
It hit 4:30 and to my annoyance they were 30 minutes late heading to five O'clock which was rather infuriating as the area became much darker than before which would clash causing continuity errors. But i went ahead and tried to get the best of what i could capture out of there time but suddenly as we began to set up on location it began to pour down with rain leaving me with no option but to pack up and re-schedule for another day to capture my final scenes.
