Director: Chloe Handley
Director of Photography: Kane Smith
Assistant Director: Rebecca Symmonds
Production Coordinator: Matthew Taylor
Sound Recordist: Rhys Collins
The first day of filming for our group was a roaring success, in which not only did we finish early, it was completed to an excellent quality with all the clips being used later in the editing stage by the team without any issues present. The cast and crew got along great both on and off set and the recorded footage ended up looking great.
08/03/2016 - A Stolen Mind
Director: Chloe Handley
Director of Photography: Kane Smith
Assistant Director: Rebecca Symmonds
Production Coordinator: Matthew Taylor
Sound Recordist: Rhys Collins
The second shoot day was spent recording more scenes for A Stolen Mind, this time finishing up the majority of the scenes on college grounds. The day once again went very well, shooting scenes with several extras who were all very attentive and well organised, allowing the scenes to once again be done on time or perhaps even early, and with everybody once again getting along well. Unfortunately, I am unable to find any pictures of either of these two lovely first days, so I have no proof of this, but if I find any pictures I'll post them below.
09/03/2016 - Exposure
Director: Kane Smith
Director of Photography: Matty Dickens
Assistant Director: Rhys Collins
Production Coordinator: Rebecca Symmonds
Sound Recordist: Chloe Handley
The third day we started filming the other two films in our group, starting with Exposure, which began by tying somebody to a chair and having someone get tackled outside a door. Everybody managed to scrape away with no injuries. The next scene involved two people being tied to a chair and somebody getting tackled WITH a chair. Despite a lot of noise and awkward filming conditions, everybody managed to not laugh during the take and the footage ended up good. Unfortunately, we had gone until pretty late and the group had to resign a few scenes for recalls, which I was unable to attend due to working on a different movie, but the cast and crew got on very well once again and the problems we had were largely related to time and the difficulty of being tied to a chair.
09/03/2016 - No Good Deed Done
Director: Matty Dickens
Director of Photography: Kane Smith
Assistant Director: Chloe Handley
Production Coordinator: Rhys Collins
Sound Recordist: Rebecca Symmonds
Later in the day, we had gained access to a public toilet (or bathroom, whichever suits you best) in which we had to record a scene in which the director of this film was pretending to be punched by one of the actors. Overall, this was a disaster. While the actors were fine for the most part, the problems arose from time constraints and the fact that this was done so late at night that effort was at an all time low. From my understanding this was finished in pick-ups, but on this particular day it was a huge mess.
14/03/2016 - No Good Deed Done
Director: Matty Dickens
Director of Photography: Kane Smith
Assistant Director: Chloe Handley
Production Coordinator: Rhys Collins
Sound Recordist: Rebecca Symmonds
This time around No Good Deed Done was a lot better, with us getting a large majority of what we had planned completed, enabling us to put the worries of the previous disaster behind us. While not everything was completed, it was completed well enough and to a professional enough standard with the help of the actors working so well that they were able to salvage it during recalls, and I was able to take a lovely photo.
15/03/2016 - A Stolen Mind
Director: Chloe Handley
Director of Photography: Kane Smith
Assistant Director: Rebecca Symmonds
Production Coordinator: Matthew Taylor
Sound Recordist: Rhys Collins
The final day of A Stolen Mind and the first film finished, once again going extremely well in comparison to the other two movies. While, from my understanding, there were a few small issues with one actors body language in the shots, it went very smoothly and is definitely able to be worked with, finishing the movie off with a resounding success and a pleasing outlook from the cast and crew on how the final product will look, ending the day with a lovely takeout.
Later this day we went to the set of another movie, The Incident, and hung around on set, which generally left me with a tired feeling. We recorded a small part of Wally's Peaks that isn't overly worth mentioning but went well enough despite the long hours of waiting before we were able to start it.
17/03/2016 - Exposure
Director: Kane Smith
Director of Photography: Matty Dickens
Assistant Director: Rhys Collins
Production Coordinator: Rebecca Symmonds
Sound Recordist: Chloe Handley
The last day I worked with the regular team we were stood outside a lovely smelling pizza restaurant recording two lads talking in a car. This went by pretty quickly and despite some awkward conversation pieces being started by the crew, there were, once again, next to no concerns that I could think of that would stop me from saying this was anything but a successful day and I enjoyed working with this crew.
21/03/2016 - Wally's Peaks
Director: Rhys Collins
Crew: Chloe Handley, Kane Smith, Matty Dickens
My first day as director of my masterpiece, and overall it went... okay. The actor for Wally was great, Odlaw was great, the guy dressed as a dog was great. Everything was good and fun and just felt fun and natural... Except for one very miserable actor who was spreading a lot of negative vibes the whole day. While we were able to get everything done we had planned, it left me concerned for how the rest of the movie would go.
22/03/2016 - Wally's Peaks
Director: Rhys Collins
Crew: Matthew Taylor, Chloe Handley, Honey Ryan
On the second day of Wally's Peaks, we were met with a lot more success. Despite an initial panic and sudden change of plans due to an actor deciding to drop out (the one who was miserable the day before) a recast and a change of plans was able to salvage the film and begin us with capturing the rest of the footage featuring Odlaw, and then to capture the mirror scene inside a bedroom. The day went extremely well overall and was a lot of fun.
23/03/2016 - Wally's Peaks
Director: Rhys Collins
Crew: Matthew Taylor, Honey Ryan, Ben Siddle
On this day we once again had initial problems getting started, having to work around missing props that ended up not being used due to me forgetting about a scene, but when it came down to working on it, everything meshed well. We finished off the scenes featuring the dog and we were able to successfully complete the majority of scenes on the famous peaks themselves, with everybody working well together and everyone being generally happy with the progress.
24/03/2016 - Wally's Peaks
Director: Rhys Collins
Crew: Matthew Taylor, Honey Ryan
My ever shortening crew and I were once again faced with difficulty getting started, but we recorded the scenes very quickly and were, for once, able to actually finish on-time, allowing us a well deserved break that the cast and crew were both very much thankful for.
14/04/2016 - Wally's Peaks
Director: Rhys Collins
Crew: Matthew Taylor
We did nothing on this day due to a mix-up in time schedule from the actor, which caused some grief but was overall forgiven due to being an honest mistake.
15/04/2016 - Wally's Peaks
Director: Rhys Collins
Crew: Matthew Taylor
It rained on this day and we once again accomplished next to nothing.
18/04/2016 - Wally's Peaks
Director: Rhys Collins
Crew: Matthew Taylor
We finally were able to wrap up the film due to the excellent weather on this day, and we and the one member of the crew needed at this point (Wally himself) were thankful to never have to approach the peaks again. We got along well with the actor for Wally (Joseph Dowie, check him out if he ever gets famous) and would love to work with him again, due to how incredible he was at listening and working efficientally, effectively and to a professional standard.
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