Production Diary: DAY THREE (04/01/17)

(For more information on the third day, click on the image to see my diary entry on the group blog)

Day Three! FINAL DAY IF FILMING!! ... or so we thought.

Although we might look happy and excited to film on the image above, we seriously went through hell while filming. Not only was the filming moved to 18 days later, due to the college closing early for Christmas, but we also had other problems such as:

1) Studio Availability (constant change of location with bad lighting, until we only moved to our first location 20 minutes before the time to go.
2) Short amount of time to teach the dance and practice before filming.
3) Reshooting bathroom the scenes, since both Eliza (Eleanor) and Erika (Tory) wore different clothes which wouldn't make sense for continuity
4) A lot of people to work with and not enough time to manage and organise properly
5) Unavailable steadicam and blurry footage due to very low shutter speed mode on the camera.

Overall, the day was pretty unproductive and stressful, with barely any footage to use and the need of reshooting. Me and Erika took turns in filming, which was definitely a challenge with no steadicam (pretty sure I'm going to be sore for awhile now), but the footage is not as good as we expected it to be,

However, on the positive side, we got to practice things once more and get an idea of the way we need to plan ahead for busy shooting days like this one. The footage from this day can be mainly used for 'Behind the scenes', background noise to add in post - production and any backup shots if they are needed. Now, we only have one more day left to film - let's hope everything goes smooth and it is our last day of shooting!