FILMING HAS STARTED - Caroline Robertson

DAY 1 - Alex, Kaz and Abi!
We managed to get many establishing shots of the house, long shots to emphasise the isolation which represents the loneliness of the main character, Milo. Although very cold and wet the shots came out clear and we played with the camera focus a lot to get different effects to make the opening more interesting. We did lots of panning shots of the mantlepiece and photographs, and alcohol for the first opening shots before the monologue begins, and when we lost daylight we filmed the under the duvet scene using a light reflected off the back wall to give a dull light effect. We also filmed the bathroom shots with the brushing teeth and opening cuboard scenes, but on replay realised we would have to reshoot the teeth brushing as it was out of focus in comparision to the rest. Overall it was a good start to our filming, and the weather wasn't too bad

DAY 2 - Alex and Kaz
We returned the next day to continue shooting, this time with our other two actors. I reshot the extreme close up of the teeth brushing (this time in focus) and Alex took a few more establishing shots of the house. We then managed to do all the shots of the parents arguing in the background with Milo in the foreground, however had to change the setting which was origionally the living room to the kitchen as due to tree's blocking the background in the living room we were not able to get the shot we wanted if we had tried to do it in there. I think that the kitchen worked well anyway because the natural lighting was better as there were wall sized windows so we amde the most of the sunlight. We took the shots of the legs coming in with our actors arguing which came out nicely, and the shots of Milo taking his shoes off. We also took shots of him creeping down the hall amongst alcohol bottles, but are re taking them as it looks too set up - we need to smash the bottles and take them in the downstairs hall instead of upstairs because the stair banisters ruin the continuity. We now have all the shots that we need the other actors for, all we have to do now is a few re shoots and the shots of Milo running through a field, climbing the tree, playing ping pong and on the trampoline.
While alex shot the kitchen scenes I took stills with a digital camera which could be used in some way for the poster. Overall the second day was better than the first - we got more done and some of the shots were really nice, We are going to continue filming next week now as Milo is not free for the rest of the week.

We have also begun to start cutting our rushes to speed up the editing process for when we finish filming - which will be by the end of next week.
(Photos are ones taken by myself during the filming, flash was off to not disturb the filming and they could be used in posters or just as behind the scene shots.)