MAJOR PROJECT: Production/Shoot Day 2

Exterior Scenes

Yesterday was our second shoot day out of 3. Again it was a later start for the cast as we needed to set up again. However, we were able to leave some of the set dressing up overnight as no-one else would be using the office space. We had a longer briefing to start off with where I covered some of the issues that we had experienced on Saturday and explained how we would tackle them. The first part of the shoot were interior Scenes 5a, 5 and 7a which ran to schedule. As we had extra time we decided to get coverage of any other interior shots with just Nik and Sophie to allow for any overruns elsewhere.

Crew

After we had dinner, all of the scenes were exterior and required it to be pitch black outside. We needed to shoot some extra shots from some of the scenes that we missed from the previous day so we made sure that there was time for this also. However, when it came to filming some of the exterior scenes from around 7pm, we did encounter some snowfall. We had just set up the equipment ready to shoot and the snow began to fall. Initially, we made a group decision to test out the two-shot to see if the snow could be seen on camera but it began to get heavier. During this point, I was feeling rather stressed about the schedule as we would already need to pick up some extra shots from the previous shoot day. However, I didn't want to de-motivate the team and so remained as positive as I could. We had to wait for about half an hour before the snowfall stopped completely and we were able to continue shooting. In the meantime, we had thought about attempting to film some of the exterior scenes in the garage without the garage lights on. However, we thought this would be too difficult to not light up the garage and make it obvious that the car was in fact in a garage. Thankfully, it didn't need to come to this as the snow fall had stopped.

Generally, it was a very successful day and I was pleased with the coverage we that we got despite the weather issues. I feel like as the Producer, I was less aware of ensuring that all of the contributors knew what they were doing as there was a much more relaxed atmosphere than on the first day, which happens with any shoot. As on the first day, I was still very conscious of the schedule and was strict with the time allowed for each scene. However, this was absolutely necessary to ensure that we didn't overrun or miss out on getting enough coverage across the first 2 shoot days which is crucial.