End Of Week 5 of Filming

Another week goes by for "Much Ado About Lauren". Got a few things done this week.

We were able to film our "WHEELCHAIR GIRL" scene, which was fun. This is basically a flashback where Greg remembers a date he had which didn't start out very well. A young lady called Sarah helped us with this, and it went well. She fell over very convincingly and then we bandaged her up a bit and put her in a wheelchair, she also rolled over some roses very convincingly, and gave Greg (Simon) a very convincing whack around the face.

Again nice to edit some flashbacks into context with rest of the film, and see how they work.

We also filmed a corridor scene with quite a few of the cast. Worked well, we see Greg and his friends observe Lauren getting friendly with our Justin character. We got there in the end, though I think we are starting to annoy the cleaners who work around the school, we try and subtley ask them as many times as possible to keep quiet for a few more minutes so we can complete filming.

John and Richy who play Marlon and Billy made the journey over to Simon's on Saturday, so we could film the "DVD scene" which is a nice little male slumber party. Wanted to go for slightly lower lights with the tv light asissting, to give a different effect, seemed to go well, and as usual the boys were hilarious and improvised very well. Got to watch out for the boom in shot! Making a film is a film school all in itself.

Got the footage home (I actually had said to Simon, "that went really well, it's unusual to finish filming and not think of anything that went wrong and seemed to go against us.") Realised I had spoken too soon! These sort of cameras do not care very much for low lighting, and the picture was blotchey and nowhere near as sharp. Actually liked the light levels but the camera didn't seem to like it, thus the interference. Lighting is about helping the camera replicate what we see, and a set needs a lot of lighting for a camera to capture what we would see as normal.

So we plan to re-shoot the scene next week, and I am gutted because I can't stand wasting people's time. But we keep going, and make sure I learn from all this, especially with the party scene coming up, it is better to overlight and take the level down in the computer during post, than it is to do the opposite.

We have found our party house, and it is going to work out great. Abi is in a professional pantomime for the whole of December so wanting to film as many of her scenes as possible now.