Shooting Day

Today us our shooting day (09.12.13) . Our team have been spending the morning preparing the lighting plan and set. 

Callum and Adam have been plugging in the lights and testing the lighting plan. Safety precautions have been taken for example ensuring the ladder is secure. Health and safety forms have been filled in.

Coloured gels have been placed all of the back lights by myself and Adam.We then directed the lights into the plastic transparent chairs which proved extremely effective. The colored lights have contributed to the overall aesthetic of the set.

Leia has been getting all of our signs and cards printed on high quality paper, cutting out the cue cards and has brought refreshments for cast and crew.

We also ensured that our set is tidy but vacuuming the carpet

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We set up all of our shooting equipment. This consisted of three cameras, three tripods and a boom mic. As well as boom poles, lighting poles and extra batteries.

Having briefed our talent we got on with filming. We enlisted the help of Finn as a boom operator and Ollie as clapper loader.

We ran into difficulties during production when the bachelor females didn't turn up or couldn't make it. We did have reserves in place however they were not contactable and as a group we had to think fast. We reshuffled the boys and had some friends of our talent who were watching take part. I had to step in as the female singleton. This was not ideal but sufficient enough to get the footage we needed. We had to improvise and because of this we will have to redo the video tapes in the green room. We ran into a few problems with the camera batteries running out but we had extra batteries and had planned for this in our contigency plan.