The Interview... Production Weekend

We started our production on Friday to take some of our stills which we then finished the morning after. The rehearsals gave us a chance to build a rapport between the cast and crew; and me and Elspeth provided food for everybody to create a nice relaxed environment in Josh's living room. This meant that on the day we were all prepared and all knew each other to an extent before production started, which I felt was good for the actors especially who didn't know one another before hand. As we had one location, with 3 scenes the set ups were simple enough.

Our problems on the day came from capturing the footage from the memory cards to laptops, as the scenes were long the 2 macbooks we had on location were unable to handle the files. This led to Gus wandering around Bristol with Ciaran (who owns the camera) looking for a new card to buy whilst we used Mark's small memory card. We wasted a lot of time doing this with something we could have been prepared by buying another beforehand, and when all the shops in Bristol didn't sell the right cards we had no option but to get one of our friends to drive a better laptop to the location. We won't make this mistake again! But I guess that's the gift and the curse of using newer, better technology that we were unfamiliar with; as the footage looks better than it would've on a z1.

To do our opening shot we used dolly tracks, but due to the harsh noise that they made whilst moving we are going to try and dub it. I hope this works well as the shot is one of my favorites from the day, but I guess we will see when we get to post production. We were very lucky when making this film that Brideswell Art Center aided us to the extent that they did. As in our schedule we did not make plans for running out of space on memory cards or have a contingency plan for losing 2-3 hours. Even though I did checks on the cards, I did not run one that was a video over 1gb. Without them allowing us to stay for those extra 3 hours, the film would not have been possible.