At the start of the day I've set off ready to meet the group for an early start to filming, but due to the low amount of trains working on a Sunday, and an inconvenient delay, my train was 20 minutes until it arrived!
After the delay I finally met up with Callum, Oliver and Riley, and we started to plan our day. I had brought all of our storyboards and shot lists (can be found on a previous post on this blog), but to start of we decided to set up for our first shot of the day; Charlotte was to arrive shortly.
Soon after Callum showed us what he brought with him, a GoPro camera and half a dozen other technical equipment that could all be well used.
After shooting about half a dozen shot and locking a fully satisfactory piece Charlotte arrived so we were able to carry on the day's filming in chronological order.
After deciding to use the deserted tennis court for the beginning of our film we carried on shooting in order of events, that way it would be easier to understand on set day of filming, and make the editing less complex.
Whilst me and Charlotte were 60 yards away acting out the scene for the extreme wide shot, we can see now that my teammates weren't always so... focused...
But time came to start shooting mid and close up shots (at least now I was able to keep an eye on them), we discussed a bit over how the scene would play out different to what we originally storyboarded (for a detailed review and explanation of all the day's creative decisions have a look at the post after this- 'Day One of Filming- "Creative decisions and Last Minute Changes"')
The time for lunch came (we all realised that doing a full day's of filming chase scenes and an unpacked lunch bag wasn't such a good idea)- so we took half an hour off to buy some food and to relax.
For Callum, who went solo to buy some fish and chips got a, unexpected job offer by the man who owns the stand, apparently he made a good first impression to the shopkeeper and in his suit looked fairly sophisticated. Callum explained why he was dressed accordingly and the impressed shopkeeper congratulated him and offered him a job at his store! Turns out wearing a suit on casual occasions really can help making a good impression!
After lunch we went back to filming, and the action segment now began- an entire day of running will be ahead of us. We planned the blocking of the scene and agreed on our positions and angles for various shots.
The next Sunday we decided to use Callum's GoPro for an exciting POV running shot, and after it we by coincidence lead to a easier and obvious path for our chase to follow before going to shot the reverse of the fence jumping.
However, we had some... obstacles.... It seems that running around the Wirral Way on a Sunday afternoon in a hoody and prop gun, convincingly shooting an innocent girl and then filming with a camera next to a children's play area. The police hung over our heads in their helicopter for a good 5 minutes circling around us! On set it was extremely thrilling and terrifying all at the same time!
We continued to film the chase now after the fence stunt we worked out a way to go back onto the Wirral Way and further the scene.
We stuck to the story board I came up with last, Oliver and Callum split up and I kill Ollie. But this was delayed when the camera batteries died!!!!! So I had to run as fast as possible to the 'near by' Morrisons (one mile away) in the purring rain- but luckily the rain stopped and everything dried up fortunate so that we had continuity.
