Film production diary

4 Days to go until the shoot. Everything is underway, the meetings we've had have gone well and all preperations have been made. Equipment and studio is booked. Roles have been assigned. My role on the day is sound operator and photographer, to document the day. Last night we auditioned the actors, only one male made it to the auditions, but luckily he was very good. Two actress' auditioned. They were both very good, but very different so it was a hard decision to choose only one. In the end we went with the girl who worked best with the male actor, she had a more natural connection with him, which would be important in the scenes we were filming.
Today we are going to set up the studio, so it is ready for Sunday. We have to position lights and mark out where each actor will be in each scene. The final shot list and storyboard will be put together by Sunay.

Film Production Diary

To start with this blog will be a diary of my role in a group film project. The Project is to script, plan and shoot a five minute conversation between two people. This is part of my MA in Interaction Design at Bath Spa University. We have 5 weeks to complete the project, so far we have had 1 meeting, but actors have been found, location and equipment booked. The first thing I will be doing is reading through the script and thinking of ideas for camera positions and shots. I will then take these to the group on wednesday so we can all discuss our ideas and hopefully create a storyboard and definitive shotlist from all our ideas.