Month: February 2013
The Greys 05/02/2013
Second shoot:
No runner,
No soundman,
No special Fx make-up artist
Actors called in unavailable in the morning.
Still finished at 8 (planned at 7)
Laura did an amazing job, not only producing and directing, but also doing the make-up, recording the sound and feeding the crew.
As our initial actress had a trauma, my task as a casting director was to find a replacement. I posted an add on the previous day and chose an actress, who was very passionate about our project, however, on the day of shooting she informed me that she had to leave London and would not take part in our film. Between the shoots I called other actresses, who replied to my add and Laura Vivio was available and saved our day.
Another problem, which occurred on the day was a missing extra. Even though the call sheet had been sent to him, and I also texted every actor involved, he didn’t come to the filming. As it was too late to find the replacement, we had to rewrite the scene in the script.
As Laura had to do a lot of things by herself, we couldn’t finish filming the killing scene on time. As it was not possible (at least with our resources) to place the lighting outside, it drastically changes throughout the scene, but we had to just go with that.
Although I had made location and lighting plans for the last scene, due to the amount of props stored in the location we had to change it on the spot. The lighting plans wouldn’t work, as the window was on the different side of the room, so I came up with a creative lighting solution on the spot. Laura trusted me and didn’t protest against changing something we had planned before.
Despite being let down by so many people, we managed to finish all the filming (almost) on time.
The Grays 04/02/2012
Shooting day 1
Managed to film everything according to our initial schedule.
Smooth flow of work, stress free working day
The Grays 31/01/13
Last couple of days have been extremely busy.
An actor who was supposed to read for one of the twins quit our project less than a week before filming, so I’ve been actively looking for someone to replace him. I had found someone, but on the day of the rehearsal he informed me that he got a job he had auditioned for earlier.
I organised the rehearsal of several key scenes and finally met our starring actor Frederick Szkoda and two other actors who read for one of the twins and detective Jeffrey.
The actors were on time, we ran through each scene a couple of times, they all were professional and really embodied their characters. We also had time to get acquainted and now I’m looking forward for the shooting.
Also that day I met with my tutor David to ask for his advice on some tricky lighting and blocking situations.
I’m continuing doing location sketches with Celtx and reminding actors about filming dates.
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