Shoot Day 1

Before we had really even started the shoot a huge change occured to my film, which was as you need an address to claim from the lottery, that it may be an idea for the mum to play the dad, but obviously change it to a mum rather than a dad. We shot the first scene the way planned with out showing the dad at all first which didnt turn out very well as it almost made it look like it was a comedy, so we tried using the Val (the mum) and changing the script slightly. Val shoked the whole room as she screamed at her son and so i though it was better to use val as the mum and have the boys come back to the house at the end.

We only managed to shoot 2 scenes the first day which was a bit dissapointing as i was hoping to get about 5 scenes done the first day, and only planned a short space of time on the second day but luckily the actors had the whole day free so said they would come earlier than planned. The main reason for this i think was it was the first time i had managed to meet the actors and so everything was a bit tense. Also having to shoot a sort of fight scene was quite difficult to do as you wanted to get them falling in the wright places so that they could get up

and continue the scene as planned. Another issue was getting the continuity correct after things got nocked that were on the sofas e.t.c.

Another major problem i had was the second scene we shot in the graveyard for part of it my camera man has put the filter on and for part of it, it was off so there is a huge difference in the lighting. I am going to see if it is possible to fix it in Premier Pro but if not i shall have to re-shoot this scene.