Sunday, 15 April 2012

Day 1- Filming - Tuesday 13th March

After a stressful night of trying to make sure everything was sorted, rescheduling scenes and making sure the actors knew everything they needed to, I thought that the first day of filming would run quite smoothly and we would get quite a lot done. I couldn’t be more wrong if I tried! It was an absolute nightmare! When I say nightmare, I’m not exaggerating. All I wanted to do is sit in a corner and cry to myself.
The day started off with me sleeping through my alarm which resulted in me being late. Making my way to college I got a phone call saying that Will (the actor who had dropped out the night before) was now coming in.  Your probably thinking ‘isn’t that a good thing?’ Well yes it would be if I hadn’t already told the actors we were doing other scenes, and some of them didn’t have to be in! So I hadn’t even got to college and everything was starting to go wrong, just what I needed. Eventually all the main cast were told that they had to be in and we were shooting the scenes we originally planned.


As planned we started sending people to the make up artists to get their fantasy make up done. Just as everything started going to plan, the make up artists were saying they had to leave. This was one of them moments where you hit your self on the head and walk away. So after what felt like hours of talking to the make up artists they decided they would stay and finish everyones make up, and 2 of them would stay till the end of the day until we finished filming just in case we needed touch ups.
We finally started filming around 2pm after everyone had been to make up and were in their costumes. All the actors were quite pleased to start filming so were quite focused, and out of everyone the ones that were causing the problem were us. The film crew. Over the past few weeks tension had grew between each of us so it was of course resolved with an argument. As soon as that was done everything seemed to instantly change, we all started working together and respecting each others decisions more, the actors started working with us more and we were actually starting to get on track with filming.

Once we had finished shooting the fantasy class room scene we had a quick break and then made our way to Tees Bararge with the cast. This scene was the one which would start the film off with Sarina reading her fairytale book with all the fairytale characters around her. We positioned all the cast around Sarina who was sat on a bench reading her book and got the cast to look at the book as if they were reading it with Sarina. This should of been a quick shot but it took forever, once we would say 'ACTION' they would start laughing and was now getting dark. We finally called it a day, and decided we would reshoot the bararge scene because it was too dark.

Overall today was probably the most stressful day I've ever had, but I'm glad it happened otherwise the cast and crew wouldn't of worked together and respected each other as much. So I guess a negative balances out for a positive, let's see how tomorrow goes...

Rehearsals- Monday 12th March

Getting all the cast and crew in the same room may seem easy but when other films have cast the same actors it proves to be quite difficult. Today was scheduled in as a rehearsal with the actors and to basically get to know each other. First we had a read through of the script with the full cast and then had a break whilst we got to know them a bit better. After the read through, we got the actors to start acting out some of the scenes. We set the scenes up how they would be and told them our visions for each scene.

So I was just about to go to bed when I get a message from one of the main actors saying 'I most likely wont be coming in tomorrow because I'm ill'. Safe to say my heart sunk. One of the main actors not turning up, are you actually kidding me?! After about an hour trying to re-organise everything we decided to move the sceduled scenes to another day and bring other scenes forward. Sounds easy? Yeh well it wasnt. This was because all of the actors would be in bed, and wouldn't pick the message up until the morning.

Let's just see who turns up tomorrow, and see how everything turns out. How am I feeling you ask? Not very confident at all *sighs* ...

Costumes & Make up- Tuesday 6th March


Since the film flicks between reality and fantasy we decided we wanted to go full out and over the top in the fantasy scenes. Once we had decided on each character and their alter ego (fantasy character) we researched the stereotypical fairytale characters and what they looked like. From this we made a mood boards for make-up and costumes. We then talked to the make up artists and showed them our ideas and they went away and planned make up designs for each character.
After we had sorted the make-up, we went to the costume cupboard at college to look for costumes for each character. After a while we found a lot of different things that would come in useful.


 As well as finding costumes this is what you get when you’re left in the costume cupboard with your friends, it’s not be the best idea...