Filming day 1

The first day of filming was scheduled so that Jess (the actress playing Georgia.) would have all her scenes filmed in one day. The intended scenes for the 1^st day of shooting were Scene 9; Georgia’s house and scene 8; the park.

Scene 9 was shot outside of Carol flack’s house (Clarice’s grandmother) in Stradbroke Sheffield. We organized the inside of the house as a base of operations; this allowed us to have access to shelter, food, toilets and warmth. Due to having to film in November, it was very cold, I made sure that when a cast, crew member or the chaperone were not needed on set they we inside the house in order to stay warm, I also provided the actors with scripts so they could go over their scenes whilst waiting inside.

During actual filming I worked closely with Courtney and Jess to get the most out of their performances. I was very happy with Courtney’s performance. As a physical actor he was excellent, he would slump his body just right in order to portray Nathan as defeated in his current situation, he was also able to pull great faces for shock at seeing Georgia again. Courtney also read his lines excellently, both in voice over and when speaking to Georgia.

Unfortunately I feel Jess was miscast as Georgia. Though I still feel she was the strongest candidate at the audition (as can be seen in the audition video on the blog).  Jess was not a strong actor, also the character of Georgia is to be overtly glamorous but Jess was not at all. Also despite much help from myself,  Jess could barely read out a single line and when she did the performance was not to a great standard, the reason I mention this is that as a director it is my role to help better and actors performance, I tried very hard to get the best out of Jess’s performance but I feel there is no quality to capture. Jess was miscast and in the next film we shall endeavor to find someone better for the role.

Scene 8 was shot at the park near by, whilst I took the actors and chaperone to a café for lunch, Dan and Robin set up for the next scene. Unfortunately after one take Robin informed me his camera had ran out of battery. As no solution could be found I sent the actors home and myself, Dan and Robin stayed behind and reworked the shot list to fit this scene in the next day of filming. I also organized for jess to be on the set the next day and I informed the rest of the crew of the new timetable. Below is our new shot list.