4th Shoot Day - Grief Management Clinic Scene

Today we completed the last shoot day of the week at the Sheffield Physiotherapy Clinic on Ecclesall Road for the final half of the script. This shoot was going to be an all day job as we had a very large portion of the script to cover, so we got to the clinic at 9 in the morning and scheduled till 5 to guarantee we would be able to get all we needed. The problem we had initially was that we would have different actors turning up at different times, so we would have to film around their availability which once again meant that we wouldn't be able to film the whole scene in chronological order. When we got there we had 1 hour to set up and decide what shots we would do first so we could start thinking of where to set up lights and have actors.

Setting up lighting prior to shoot.

Setting up camera angles prior to shoot.

When the actors got there, we instantly started to get on with the shots, with me helping with setting up lighting as usual, as well as giving my opinion on the compositions Matt set up, one thing that bogged us down to start with though was the space in which we had to film in, in our floor plans we had anticipated the room to be bigger, with more space behind the desk. This made setting up some over the shoulder shots of the receptionist difficult and took up more time than we wanted. Also we didn't anticipate the amount of retakes we may have to do for the actors to get used to the script and deliver their lines right.
In today's shoot, we got a lot of footage that we wanted and the majority of it looks good, however, reviewing some of it throughout the day, we realised that some shots needed doing again to keep with the continuity of the rest of them so we started re-shooting throughout the day

Chris directing actors on location.

Checking compositions.

Checking compositions

Helping other members of the group out when they needed it.

In today's shoot, we got a lot of footage that we wanted and the majority of it looks good, however, reviewing some of it throughout the day, we realised that some shots needed doing again to keep with the continuity of the rest of them so we started re-shooting when we found the time in the day.