Filming the Storyline.

The day started off as a bit of a disaster...

1) We realised that we didn't have a camera.

2) Jerome and Grace both had to pull out of the filming last minute.

3) My train was delayed to get into Berkhamsted.

Unfotunatley, the day didn't improve all that much...

Luckily, we managed to convince Danni's sister that she would like to be in our film and bribed Tom Baker to fill in for Jerome with promises of Dominoes pizza later that afternoon.

Danni then saved the day by going to get the camera from school. We (eventually) all met at Danni's house where we were expecting to film, but Danni's mum had decided to redecorate that week, so we all went down the road to her Gran's house which she kindly (and bravely) allowed us to film.

Danni went off down the road with her sister and Eamonn to take pictures of them looking like a couple which he would burn at the end of the video. Meanwhile, Charly and I set up the room to look as if a younger couple might live there. Being very careful to move photographs and ornaments which didn't fit in with the mise en scene. We started to talk about where we could put the camera and which angles and lighting we should use to create the right ambience.

We began filming the sofa scene, but because we hadn't had the camera that morning, therefore hadn't had a chance to charge it, it soon ran out of battery. We then had to wait for ages as we charged the camera.

Once it was charged we decided that it was best to move on and film Danni's sister walking out of the bedroom, down the stairs, out the door and into the car. As we were all standing outside filming Danni's sister walk out the house, she shut the door behind her. A feeling of doom fell over the group as we realised that the house key was sitting on the hall table! We had to wait a few hours for another key to be cut... perfect time for Tom to get his pizza! We filmed a few more scenes outside before the camera ran out of battery again.

By the time we got back inside the house, it was beginning to get dark so we quickly filmed the last of the outside scenes. We charged up the camera again before filming the rest of the inside scenes. ie. on the sofa, in the bedroom, and the girl being caught cheating by her boyfriend.

We charged up the camera, for the final time, and went down the road to film Eamonn, the estranged boyfriend, sitting on the park bench and flicking through photos before finally throwing them on the ground, burning them and walking away. When we reached the bench, we realised that the lamp wasn't very bright. Charly had the genius idea of using Danni's car headlamps as extra lighting. It illuminated him and made him look alone, but in control of the situation. Almost as soon as we had finished filming, the battery on the camera died, I kid you not.

So after a day of disasters, we had finally finished our filming. We all went home for a well earned rest!