Day 2 of Filming

21/01/2012

Today I am filming the inside scenes of my film opening. It did come with a few problems; breaking curtains, chopping meat unevenly, not being able to light matches or candles and not being able to put on a table cloth!
I changed my opening so instead of having a pie come out of the oven I now have the mystery woman laying a table for two, pouring herself some wine, lighting the candle and blowing out a match. As when I filmed the scenes outside it was dark I wanted it to seem like dusk inside even though it was only 1 o'clock in the afternoon, I remember this as at my location there are many clocks that strike on the hour.

As I wanted the room darker I closed the curtains behind the table, in doing so the curtain pole fell down on myself and my sister. Once we fixed the curtains we started to lay the table, I wanted to have a shot of someone putting a table cloth on the table. This took a good half hour as first of all we had to iron the table cloth as it had so many creases in it, then we had to work out how to throw the table cloth over the table so it landed perfectly the first time without having to straighten it out, this was hard than you think! We had to do it about 12 times and that was only practise, we had to do it another 5 times for the real thing!
We also light a candle, this also took a long time! The candle did light first time but Vicki lit it before I started filming! After this it took ages to light the candle again!
Below is a picture of my sister who played the main part in the opening of my film.

Chopping the meat