Shoot Day 3- Thursday 21/2/2019

This shoot day has proved to be the most stressful so far. The first shoot location was inside a pub with the owner's permission having been acquired by the Producer, Callum. The sound for this area that was picked up by the microphone was of a good quality, with only the slight sound of traffic going past.
However, after we set up the first shot, two workmen started drilling on the road, delaying us for approximately ten minutes as I did not feel comfortable recording the dialogue with that noise in the background. The rest of the shoot for the pub scene went relatively smoothly and I was able to get a few different sound beds set within the pub in order to create a convincing sound bed for the setting. Some extra establishing shots of drinks being served and darts being thrown were also captured, giving me some ideas for sound effects such as the clinking of glass bottles and the thud of a dart as it hits a dartboard.

Filming resumed inside the house location. However, a found a problem started to occur as there were many more people present during the filming of these scenes, some of whom were not even relevant to what we were doing and had no business being there. This caused quite a lot of disruption which meant delays and the filming processes took much longer than it probably should have.

This started to show as some of us, myself included, started to feel fatigued during the later half of the day's filming. While we were able to successfully get the shots that we wanted for the scenes we were filming, the distractions and lack of focus meant that we ended up doing numerous retakes which in turn caused more stress for the actors and crew. I personally would have asked the people who weren't art of the crew or cast to leave but felt that wasn't down to me.

I noted that our Producer, Callum, wasn't helping our progress as he seemed content in sitting in the other room and talking randomly through some of our takes and later speaking as if he was having some large input into the filming process. This was something I noticed on the previous shoot days but it became more noticeable here. Towards the end of the day's filming, he even disappeared for a driving lesson without any of us knowing, though I found it ultimately meant we could just get on with the filming process.

Overall, I still felt the day was successful, especially as we managed to film the longest and perhaps the most complicated scene in the entire production involving multiple hallucinations, the largest number of cast on screen and one of the cast members dressed as a penguin.

At the end, as always, Aimee and I started to sort out all of the footage, with her digitising the footage and then passing it all onto me so I can label the video and sound for matching purposes during the edit.