production

- FILMING DAYS-

Day one - Saturday 30th April 2022

I arrived at the location earlier than originally planned so I could help Nia set up all the equipment and build the set. Bear in mind the previous night at 10.30 PM I got a text from the person that was supposed to help us film and bring equipment saying that not only did they not have the equipment they said they'd bring, a shoulder mount, but also that they weren't going to come shooting. This put us in a very awkward position.

After filming a proper location recce and setting up the house ready for filming, the cast arrived and we began to block out the action and setting up the camera ready for filming. We took a couple of test shots and by 8:30 PM it was getting dark and we were able to start filming. We called in the help of Nancy Stirling who lived nearby and got them caught up with the script and how we were going to film.

We spent the first couple takes using the Sony VG30 however we began to have issues with the overall quality of the camera. It was at this point we switched to Nia's Nikon 3800D. This instantely improved the quality of the video and we began to make serious progress. However we ended up running out of time a lot quicker than expected and we soon had to wrap. I definetly think we could have managed our time a lot better however we managed to get everything else filmed the next day.

Day two - Sunday 1st May 2022

The second day was a lot more jam packed. We all met together at 5PM at the location and began rehearsals and test shots. We started filming as soon as the sun went down and had to keep the schedule as tight as possible. We had to do some retakes due to the low quality of the VG30, so we