After a well earned nights sleep the full cast and crew reconvened at the Museum of Kent Life rearing and ready to go for day three of filming. It was on this day that we as a production broke rule number one of film making "Don't work with children or animals".
The day fell into two halves, the first half was a joy to work during as Louie the young boy who we had playing Johnny was happy and raring to act. We shot several scenes with him in them and he gave a very good performance for a four year old with no previous experience on camera.
The day fell into two halves, the first half was a joy to work during as Louie the young boy who we had playing Johnny was happy and raring to act. We shot several scenes with him in them and he gave a very good performance for a four year old with no previous experience on camera.
It was also during day three that Ollie Matjasz was well enough to take up his role as Arthur. The relationships between the three characters shown above came across as very genuine and warm. As we had been going slower than needed on the previous days shootings the decision was made that we would have to use two cameras to get the coverage in a quicker fashion than we had been doing. This would also help with not making Louie do as many repetitions of scenes which would have brought his to his stopping point with even less of his scenes having been shot.
The second half of the day came when Louie had simply had enough. It was totally understandable a four year old boy can only do so much without it becoming to much. This did however mean that there were a number of scenes scheduled to be filmed that couldn't be filmed as written in the script. It was fortunate that Maddie Ireland on of the writers of the short was on hand to help Producer Hennie and Director Daniel work quick revisions to those scenes so that they still made sense without Johnny being present. Although this isn't what we had hoped to be filming it meant that the film could head towards completion.
The second half of the day came when Louie had simply had enough. It was totally understandable a four year old boy can only do so much without it becoming to much. This did however mean that there were a number of scenes scheduled to be filmed that couldn't be filmed as written in the script. It was fortunate that Maddie Ireland on of the writers of the short was on hand to help Producer Hennie and Director Daniel work quick revisions to those scenes so that they still made sense without Johnny being present. Although this isn't what we had hoped to be filming it meant that the film could head towards completion.
The scene that took the longest to shoot on day three was the scene of Arthur coming home. Although this was the case the time spent we hope should be well worth it. It is the only scene of the short where all four of the main cast are in it together.
Due to using a two camera setup during this second day of filming we were able to catch up to where we were scheduled to be. The main concern after filming on day three was the audio quality that we were able to obtain. On day two the audio equipment was the personally own equipment of Michael Birrin. For days three and four the sound operator Robert Copland had to use far less quality equipment. He reviealed that the wind shield we had wasn't very effective and therefore it is likely that we will have wind noise issues in the post production process. |  |
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