Major Project - Production Day 2

There was a two week break between day one and two of filming for Love Always and this gave me ample opportunity to look back over the footage we shot, see what I liked about camera work and the actors performances and see if there were things that we would need to address for the remaining days of filming. Thankfully there wasn't a huge amount of what we got from day one that would have changed it I had chance to do it over.

So on the morning of day two the cast and crew arrived at the Museum of Kent Life which would serve as our location for a majority of the next three days of filming. It had been pre arranged that we could use their buildings as our sets what came as a nice surprise was that they also provided us with a large warm base room where we could put our equipment the hair, makeup and wardrobe members of the crew were able to set up and  stay in relative comfort rather than set up outside in the cool October air.  

For day two of production we had a largely extended cast and crew some returning members and some new additions. Re-joining us from day one was Benedict Smith who played Frank. We had planned to start the day doing some of the scenes that only required him, knowing from the first days filming that hair and makeup for Tara Dowd who played Mary would take at least an hour. We started our day off well and any nerves I have were soon lost to what we were doing. As the day went on I was happy with the performances that Benedict, Tara and Eliza Jade who played Alice gave. Although we had had scenes scheduled with the character of Arthur for the second day due to illness
he was unable to attend. This worked out for the best of the production in the end as although what we were getting was good it did take longer to  get than I had expected and probably wouldn't have had time to film his scenes anyway.