MAJOR PRODUCTION: FILMING DAY THREE

The third day of filming was on 15/02/2019, it was our must complex day so far as we were filming in 2 different locations. As the producer I knew that I needed to be prepared for the day logistically. I had arranged for the cast members to meet Laura at her house, to come with her to the locations so that they didn't have to worry about driving to and from different locations. The filming was first taking place in Binney Road in Allhallows, this was to film the following scenes

- Scene 14: Marlo and Nova garden scene
- Scene 17: Marlo and Nova kitchen scene, following out into the road to have conversation.

These were very simple and easy scenes for us to complete, I had schedule around 2.5 hours at this location to complete these scenes. Darcy (Nova) and Liam (Marlo) work well together as do our crew, this was our 3rd day of shooting therefore I was confident we would be able to complete these scenes to a great standard in the time allotted. We did however, have 2 unsolvable issues whilst filming. Scene 14 takes place at the side of the house, this meant that we had to compete with outside noise from the neighbours, this held us back slightly as all we could do was wait and film in the time that the noise went silent. As we moved onto Scene 17, we had some more noise issues. We had a few more shots left to complete the scene on the side of the road, however the issue we encountered was that it was bin day, this meant a bin truck was going up and down the road, stalling our filming for about 20 minutes. Luckily, this didn't delay us too much in getting on with the rest of the day, it was important that we waited the time so that we could get the shots Laura wanted without the issue of the noise. It was at this point of the day that we needed to travel to the next location for filming.

Our next location was on York Road in Maidstone, this is the location for the following scenes.
Scene 22/24 - Marlo standing over Novas memorial, emotional before his mum (Julie) turns up to console and take him home.
Scene 23 - Known as our flashback scene, this is the death of Nova.

We arrived at this location in our two different cars, on the way I had picked up lunch for everybody. We had just meal deals with sandwiches etc, as everyone could pick exactly what they wanted. Everyone was happy with this. Overall, the main issue that we had with this day was lighting. Scenes 22/24 take place in the night, so we knew we would have had to lit the scene. We had to play around with car and phone lights (as well as LEDs) to make it look as lit as could. This will depend upon the edit in terms of how this scene looks.

What did I learn on Filming Day Three?
A lot of these filming days are teaching me a lot about scheduling and timing constraints, this is the first project where I have been solely in charge of the timings and I have had to schedule each scene with allotted filming times. Thinking about day three, it would have perhaps benefits for us to split the locations into two different days. At the start, it made sense to have the both locations on the same day, they both only required half a day each so it made sense to do it all in one. However in hindsight I think we would have benefited from having them on 2 different days, yes the days would have been shorter but we would have been able to focus more on the locations and have more time to prepare for things such as sound issues and lighting.


Call sheets for Day Three: