The Filming Day!

Due to the weather forecast, yesterday it was decided to bring the call time forward, from half 9, to 8am. SO;

7:30AM Cameraman Douglas to be collected by Roy

8AM arrival on site for cast and crew

Immediately into costume and make-up, with one make-up lady, one costumer, and only one room for the cast to get changed in - it took some time to get ready as, being set in Spain during the Civil War most of the actors needed to have fake tan applied. Part of this was also making sure the actors were alright, as it was early and quite cold, and one of our actresses had a cold.

 

 

8:45AM

Roy had found a secondary location he wanted to use for the 'funeral' scene for one of our actresses, and took myself, our cameraman and Katherine Lamb, our actress who's funeral it would be, to the secondary site. This was a walk in the opposite direction to our first site. The new site needed negotiation with the forestry commission, and as such I phoned our forestry commission contact and arranged a meeting in order to get the site checked and approved by him.

9:30AM

Alice Duggan, our runner and helper for the day, arrives ontime and ready to work.

 

10AM filming starts

We took the actors, now in costume and make-up, down to the site with the prop guns, a 20 minute walk from the car park. We started immediately, needing to get as much as we could done before the bad weather was meant to hit.

 

Douglas, our Cameraman, with Director Roy setting up the initial shots

 

10:30AM

Two scenes in I recieved a call from our forestry commission contact to let me know that he had arrived at our carpark and was ready to be taken to the other site to see if we would be able to use it. After letting the crew know where I was going, I headed back up to the carpark and took our contact over to the other site and explained to him what we were hoping to use it for. Thankfully he approved it, and then it was back to the car park to meet the next actors call time.

 

11:30AM

Final two actors arrive for costume and make-up.

 

11:45

Actors break for lunch while the two new actors finish getting put into hair and make-up

 

Cast and crew in the 'backstage area' getting into make-up and eating lunch

 

12:30PM

We headed over to the second site, to film the final bits of the battle, and the death and funeral scenes. By this point the weather was worsening but despite the wind and the begining of the rain, we managed to get the filming completed before the weather turned too badly. During this second half I was able to help costume and make-up (Picking blackberries which can be used as fake blood!) and help Alice in carrying equiptment for Douglas and the cast. When the rain started to get worse, myself and Carol Childs, the costume department, ended up holding an umbrella over the cameraman to make sure that he could get the last shots without getting the camera wet.

 

 

 

FILMING ON SITE END - 2PM

 

Pack up time - 30minutes, cast leaving site at 2:30PM

 

A very successful day, with the scenes being filmed quickly and efficiently and the cast very much in gear and focussed, we managed to finish much sooner then anticipated - and not a moment too soon as when we reached the car park the skies opened and the rain started in earnest, but the cast were wrapped up well enough that everyone was kept warm and dry and the packing up was done quickly as noone wanted to be out in the rain any longer then they had to be.

Now it is just a case of the film being edited, combined with the footage Roy is hoping to use and then re-formatted to be compatible with the projectors.