5th Shoot Day - 2nd House shoot

Today we tried to shoot all the footage for the rest of the scenes in the house to complete our filming and get on with the post production of our film. This was once again quite a lengthy shoot as we had around 3 scenes to film, including some pick up shots we wanted to get from the second shoot we did where we filmed a few shots at my house that now wouldn't work with the rest of the film. The shots we would be filming today would cover these scenes in the script:

 INT. JOHN'S HOUSE. DAY.

          John, looking drained and confused is sat hunched on a sofa.
          The doors knocks and he answers.

          John opens the door but finds no one on the other side. In
          the background the stranger from before can be seen
          wandering past wearing the same red coat as John before.

          Confused, John looks around and notices a box on the
          doorstep. Cautiously he picks it up and carries it inside.
          He places it down in the living room and opens it, inside he
          finds another business card that reads: Sometimes Scares
          Aren't Meant To Fade. As well as a record.

          He places the record on a player and touches the needle down
          carefully. Elgar's Enigma Variations begins to play and
          visibly calmed by the music John slumps into the sofa again.

          Suddenly John seizes up and bolts upright. His breathing
          intensifies as he closes his eyes 

INT. JOHN'S HOUSE. MORNING.

          John is sat hunched over on the sofa, his eyes red and puffy
          from crying. The sound of the postman pushing mail through
          the letterbox shreaks through the silence of the house.

          Wearily, John stands up and trudges to the door to fetch
          them. He re-enters the room sifting through the pointless
          letters and bills, until he gets to a mysterious
          advertisement leaflet.

          In big green letters on the front it reads NAME OF COMPANY

          Underneath in slightly smaller font, there is a paragraph
          reading: Grief Management. To Help The Pain Go Away.

          In the bottom right hand corner there is an address.

          As John leaves he drops the leaflet, it falls face down
          revealing that the company wipes its customers' memories. 

We arrived at my house around 3 ish to set up early prior to Bobby arriving at 4:30, so we could figure out what compositions would look best where, as well as what, if any, lighting set ups we might need. On this shoot I did the same as normal by helping out with the lighting and set up of the room, give my opinions on the compositions as well as giving a hand with the sound if anyone needed it.

Setting up shots and directing actors.

Setting up lights when necessary.

Actor in location.

Set up of crew during takes.

The shoot today went very well with the shots we managed to collect, however, we noticed some continuity errors that would be a problem in the final film from other shoots so we decided to do one final pick up shoot this week that would hopefully be the final time we needed to film anything so we could focus entirely on the post production of our film.