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...