Production Diary

Friday 18th November 2016 -
In the afternoon we went to the main indoor location where our main character Georgie Ward lives with her partner, Charlotte. We took some practise video shots in order to test whether the angles we wanted to use were suitable for the film. This is integral to helping us plan out the start of our film as it means we will be able to get straight into filming our first scenes on Friday. We spent roughly two hours planning what areas of the house to use and where we would set up the camera for each scene. This organisation will help us save time during filming as everything will be planned, prepped and ready to go.

Friday 25th November 2016 - 
We started filming the kitchen and bedroom scenes, as well as looking at camera angles. We got lots of footage to work with which will be helpful when editing as it will give us lots of options and things to work with. This week we have started editing, and will start some of the outdoor shots next week, before completing the indoor shots in the coming weeks.

Friday 2nd December 2016 -  
We made a start on filming the war sequence. We decided to shot in a local park, and because we were using a plastic gun we went over to inform the police of our actions so that they were aware of what we were doing. We got lots of footage to use in lots of different camera shots, that will be good to work with and edit. This next week we are planning on editing this footage and then planning out a filming schedule for over the Christmas holidays.

Tuesday 13th December 2016 -
We reshot the house scenes, for continuity purposes, due to a hair change by one of the main characters. We managed to re-film everything within the space of an afternoon. We also altered some of the shots. After christmas we are planning to edit all the new footage, which gives us time to do any re-shoots that may need to be done.

Wednesday 17th January 2017 
We made a start on filming the final shots of our film, in the counselling room, due to weather restrictions. We used a spare classroom in our college for this scene, making sure to set up the room carefully, in order to capture the essence of the therpay session. We did lots of close ups in order to make the scene appear more intimate and show Georgie's vulnrability.

Wednesday 1st February 2017
We filmed some of the outside walking scenes. To film this we used the fountains located across from college, here we used the walk way located between the Town Hall and the fountains, this allowed us to have more footage to use and so we were also able to use it to link the bus scenes to the reception scene. Also, we used Regent Street as a lot of busses use this route to the main interchange at the bottom of the road. This allowed us to film a bus pulling away and Georgie and Charlotte appearing, as if they have just got of the bus. We will link this with a shot of a bus pulling up to a bus stop near Georgies home.

Monday 6th February 2017
We shot some of the final scenes for our film, the reception scenes are needed to link the walking scenes to the counselling session. To film this we used the reception and main doors of college, this set up allowed us to film walking through the main door, which acted as the main doors for the counselling building and the reception area acted as the reception area of the building as well, as it had a sofa, table and a few chairs to give a good effect.

Friday 17th February 2017
Today was our final day filming, we shot the outside of Georgie's house and once scene inside where the lid was put back on the orange juice and the bottle placed back in the fridge. We used close ups for the orange juice scene, with long and medium shots for the outside scenes.

Friday 3rd March 2017
We decided to reshoot the therapy scene, to include more detail to Georgie and Charlottes back story. Also we decided that we needed to include a lot more close ups to show more emotion and to try get the viewer to sympathise with Georgie. To film we uses a one to one room, that is situated n college, they are a plain room with only coat hooks on the walls. We decided this was a good place to film, as it gave a more therapy like atmosphere.

Friday 10th March 2017 
We had to refilm the shot of us walking into the counselling room because in our original shot, the camera was visible in the glass. We decided that we needed to remove this error from the film otherwise it could effect the overall quality.We had to shoot three times because of background noise such as doors opening and people walking.

Friday 17th March 2017
We decided to film an extra part to the letterbox scene. We decided to film this as we wanted to explain what happened, and give the audience more detail. We shot this in the same house, however our only problem was the lighting, so we made the decision to refilm the letter coming through the letterbox, so that we had continuity with the lighting.