Problems before filming

Several problems occurred before the actual filming stage that meant we had to tweak our ideas.

The first incident happened on Saturday 10th December, I phoned the owner of the car we were going to use just to clarify that we could still use it for Monday 12th December however we found out that the girl was having serious panic attacks and was therefore unreachable. This set back meant that we had to re think the idea and tweak it to maintain the seriousness without the car. If the car is un-usable we are prepared to phone classic car companies and ask for their permission in return for advertisement however we have got to voicemail twice now and it doesn’t look promising. We are going to hope that we can re film this scene in the trailer before the final deadline to include the car but if we can’t at least we have a backup.

The second problem that we faced was getting a location that we had permission to use a knife. We looked at both our gardens and several businesses but we thought it would be more sensible if we used the school playing field. The area looks like a deserted open location with the bonus of having the approval needed to safely film the shots without the police getting involved. To make sure that the houses around the field know that we are filming we have created several ‘FILMING IN PROGRESS’ sheets that clearly state in bold that there is filming around that location and therefore they should not be alarmed.

The final problem that we had to overcome before filming could start was time management and most importantly getting the actors and actresses to all is in one place at the same time. This was very difficult as several of our key actors work a lot during the December month and as we already had to push back two days of filming due to this problem we knew it would be one that would come up again during the project.