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| Day Two Schedule |
The day began with me collecting Angela from the train station. I had to bring with me lots of props to help with the set design of Marlo's bedroom, this included a box of different school and textbooks as well as sacks of clothing. The rest of the house is already very minimalistically decorated, which was part of our reasoning for choosing the house. We needed to make sure that the bedroom was specifically decorated for what we needed it to be, the scenes at the start of the day took place when the bedroom needed to be messy, books and clothes flown over the floor and the bed unmade. However further scenes that we were filming meant the room needed to be completely transformed into a clean, tidy and empty room. As the producer I was making sure that the room was looking the way it should in each scene, whilst other scenes in different rooms were being completed I made sure that Marlo's bedroom was set how it should be. 
As we were going through the scenes, I was overlooking the timings. We had to make sure that each s scene was being filmed in the correct lighting, as some of the scenes take place during the day, others in early evening and finally some in the nighttime. I had made, for the purpose of filming, a timing chart, detailing each scene number and the time of which it was going to be taking place. As we were filming I suggested that we change the location of scene number 17, originally it was going to be taking place in Marlo's bedroom. However i realised that with the daylight timings it probably wouldn't work as well, so I thought it better for Marlo to go straight in the kitchen for scene 17 (following on from the living room in scene 16) and for the scene to take place there. This worked well because it meant that we had sped the timeline of the day up, and the later scenes we had would be able to be filmed in more dusk light rather than having to wait for the pitch black dark of night. 
Overall day two of filming went really well, the scenes all worked in the way they should have, the location was dressed exactly how we needed it to be and the cast worked well together. The only slight issue that we encountered was with sound, the house is in quite a rural location and we had 2 dogs and chickens in the house to contend with. I made myself useful by keeping the dogs out of filming and keeping them quiet in the background whilst the camera was rolling, whilst also filling out my checklist of scenes. We had high winds also due to the rural location, which we had to just accept and film with anyway, something we will look to fix in post production.
What did I learn during Filming Day Two?
I learnt during this filming, that if a crew and cast are used to working with each other, a schedule can work well. On this day, our schedule was still quite tightly packed, but because of the fact we were in one simple location and it was our second day filming, we were all in much more of a filming flow which meant we stayed on schedule. Also, I perhaps learnt the importance of having a runner/someone to help up. Due to now fault of their own we had no one to help us on this day, it just meant that I had to do a small bit of running around, which I was happy to do so because it meant that I knew everything was getting done at the correct time.
Call sheets for day two:
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