We filmed our short on Tuesday the 22nd of February in a local park area, situated across from a church, my role for the day was production designer but as well as this i was also in charge of sound, meaning i was responsible for the microphone and all the sound being recorded. Before filming i had to do the make-up, hair and clothing of all the actors, i also had to organise all the props that were being used and make sure everything was in the correct place at the correct time. Before arriving on set i had to bring all the props and make-up that would be needed during filming, I feel when filming we needed to work closely together as a team so that everything came together in the correct way and i feel we did this successfully. We all arrived on set at 10am, we began by setting up all the equipment which included a camera, microphone, digital camera and finally a Sony Mini DV player. As we had already learnt how to use the equipment we were responsible for there was no need practice or be taught how to use anything, thus after setting up we went straight into filming. However before we filmed the actors did a small rehearsal just to go over their lines and make sure they were in the right position in the camera lens. 
When filming we followed the shot list very carefully, we had to make sure that we achieved the desired effect. I feel the Mini DV player really helped at this point as Becky was able to view everything that was being filmed and if she felt the shot we were shooting didn't look right she would be able to stop and re-position the actors or myself and Matt. The young boy playing Sam i feel coped very well, children are notoriously hard to work with, however Thomas seemed to take direction really well and if he made mistakes, was quick to correct them. We filmed on a very cold and miserable day, and thus chose the use the 85 filter to brighten up the whole feel of the film, we learnt about the use of the 85 filter in a workshop run by miss ship, i go into further detail in Post 11. Filming went on from 10am to 4pm which wasn't very pleasant for the actors, particularly Jonathan as he was used for that whole time period. Towards the end of the day we ran into sound issues, the sound began to continuously cut out meaning we had to stop, replace the batteries in the microphone and try and find out what the issue was, we also had to re-film shots due to the sound cutting out. As well as this we were met with the challenge of traffic noise interfering with our filming, the traffic was very loud and over powering, meaning that the actors could not be heard and again having to re-film certain shots.
My role for the day
My role for the day
Opposite are various images, the first being all the actors in full costume and make-up. I feel the desired effect was achieved with the majority of the characters, the only character i felt who wasn't as we planned was Harry, the teenage character, looking back it would seem better to have had him wearing a tracksuit and darker clothing to give him more of a dark and mysterious look. I feel Jonathan's costume was exactly how we wanted him to look, he looked smart and you could differentiate between the days by his various coloured scarfs. This is a naturalistic film and thus everyone had to look dressed for the modern day.
As well as this i wanted to make the different characters obvious, for example, the Art Student, she was wearing bright and bold colours to represent her warm, fun character. I feel Carol, the office workers costume was exactly as planned, she was dressed all in black and looked very smart, however wore red lipstick and high heels to add a sense of sex appeal to her character. Finally, the character of Jonathan was the vital part of the film, although not overly noticeable, his costume changes were the most important out of all the characters. In order to show the audience that his story unraveled over a period of time it had to become evident that he was not just sitting on the park bench at one particular time throughout the whole film. In order to show this to the audience i decided to put Jonathan in different coulerd scarfs to show the different days. Another way of representing what day or week it was, was by having Jonathan wear a scarf and coat at the beginning of the film and then towards the end just wearing a shirt and trousers to show the change in the seasons.
A key element of Jonathan's character is that he always looks smart, in every scene we see him wearing a tie, smart trousers and smart shoes. When deciding on costume early on in the pre production i knew we wanted Jonathan to be smart, looking as if he's trying to impress someone, which is in fact his dead wife. Overall i feel all the costumes worked out exactly as planned. I feel that filming went to plan overall. We had to film the majority of shots we did a couple of times just to ensure that we captured everything that we wanted to, and because of this we ran over schedule thus everything ran behind time. However despite this we all got on with what we were responsible for and captured everything on the shot list so hopefully our film will depict our hard work and effort. This video shows filming with and without the use of an 85 filter, we learnt about the use of a 85 filter at the beginning of our project and when filming we felt it was an essential piece of equipment to have.
