Filming Diary Day 1

Despite our detailed planning, we encountered problems with the production of our film trailer. The first of these stemmed from one of our actors not being available on the days they originally said they would be, which initially caused problems for our film schedule as we found ourselves being unable to film on the required days that we had set aside. This required a rethink of our film schedule and we had to quickly adapt to the situation, which involved a recasting of the two leads in order to effectively maximise our filming opportunities. We figured that recasting Noah as the lead character Toby, in our trailer would allow us greater opportunity to film sections of our trailer as with our other actor, Evan, proving not to be available at incredibly short notice we planned to proceed with filming and make as much progress as possible.
As a result of this situation, we did change portions of the script to more suitably enable Noah to effect his slightly darker portrayal of the character than was originally written in the script. However, I feel that this was a good learning opportunity and experience for me as it made me realise that I am very quickly able to adapt to unexpected situations and am then able to be quick thinking and plan around problematic situations that develop and rear their heads. 
I feel that I demonstrated these skills effectively to overcome the problems that the day threw at us. Despite the difficulties encountered during filming, I believe that the shoot was successful and I am happy with the film footage we have already filmed. I hope that our filming is able to continue in this more successful vein.

Call Sheet

Like a script, a call sheet provides crucial information to both the actors and members of the crew that are working on a film production. A call sheet provides important information for both cast and crew as well as also providing structure and much needed stability to a film shoot. On a call sheet, details can expect to be found of the time and location of a shoot and who will be involved in making the shoot run as smoothly as possible. Call sheets are both a simple and effective way of displaying information required by perhaps sometimes over 100 people into a concise and easy to understand format. Whilst our film crew will invariably comprise of less than 100 people, a call sheet will still be necessary in order to provide order and stability  for our own film shoot, even though if in comparison it is a small venture to that of a larger production.

Both Zach and I created the film schedule/call sheet collaboratively so we both knew when we were available, also from the call sheet we were able to arrange the actors' availability as we realised when they were required to be available. As is shown in the yellow grid we have 5 filming days comprising from Monday to Saturday in which to complete  our filming for our trailer from 11am through to 8pm on various days. The later finishing time of 8pm allows us to complete our "night shoot" effectively for the gang fight scene that features the majority of our actors including starring me as an extra to accommodate the vast numbers required to create the impression of a "gang" realistically and authentically. We have chosen to spread our filming over 5 days as we are filming at different times of day and to make sure our actors are rested accordingly so they can give their best performances to add greater depth, quality and authenticity to our film trailer production.