Evaluation of Day One of Filming - Sunday 3rd December

What Went Well 

• We arrived on time
• We were very organised and had all of the correct equipment and set it up quickly 
• All cast and crew were very professional 
• We got multiple takes of each scene and from different angles 

Issues 

• I found that I had over-complicated my scenes by including too many different shots, which would mean too many different shots in scenes. For example, I had planned for multiple different shots in scene 1, however when it came to it the scene was very short and only needed three different angles. 
• We had to change the script slightly in some areas e.g. in scene 2, we had planned for a pan to boil over, however this wasn't possible because the stove did not work. Instead, we changed this to having a tap run and overflow the sink instead. This error was down to poor communication between me and the property owner as I did not check with them whether the stove worked before writing it into my script. 
• Angela had been learning her lines from an earlier draft of the script she had to learn new lines very quickly (she handled this professionally).
• We had to change some of the camera angles I had planned because the there wasn't enough room in the house, e.g. in the conservatory I wanted Henry to stand up and walk out at the end however the table was a lot wider than I thought it was which meant that John would not have been able to walk past without it looking strange. 
• Even though doing multiple takes was good, this lead to cast being and crew being stood in small rooms for prolonged periods of time. One of the cast members became unwell and fainted in between scenes. Luckily she was ok and it just meant that we brought forward our dinner break to give everyone a rest, and we picked up filming after we had eaten. We still managed to keep to time and get everything filmed before it got dark and we lost the natural light, this taught me that it is ok to not completely stick to the shooting schedule because health and safety is more important. Thankfully we had a trained first aider on site and and they were able to help make sure that Melissa was ok. From this, I am reconsidering our shooting schedule for next weekend and may move some of the scenes around to give us more breaks.