Today we had a meeting to discuss the shoot tomorrow. Sam slept through his alarm in Stratford so there was just the four of us today. We didn’t get off to a very good start today. Nicola spoke to Josh about including the best shots rather than the shots which he’s happy with himself in, and this wasn’t taken very well. It wasn’t said in an offensive way at all, but Josh clearly felt targeted by it and I do feel bad about that.
Having said that, we have an important shoot tomorrow that needs a lot of planning and organisation, so to carry it on for the whole meeting was ridiculous. It should have waited until after the meeting rather than being carried on the entire way through. It made it very uncomfortable and held us back a lot. Furthermore, it has put us all on a downer for tomorrow. I’ve tried really hard to get in actors and get a room sorted for tomorrow and, before this afternoon, I was really looking forward to it.
Anyway we didn’t end on good terms either and so me, Mark and Nicola went through the rest of the script between us. I hope Josh is ok and also hope, that rather than reacting like today, he will talk to us about anything he is uncomfortable with so we can work together to sort it.
Josh, I understand why you are uncomfortable with some of the shots (he is in Y-fronts to be fair!), but you’ve got to understand that having the attitude that you are editor and so we don’t have a say is completely unfair. To follow saying that with ‘none of you know my password so none of you can get the footage to do anything about it’ is even more unfair. We are getting marked as a group and so it’s important that we work as a team and take on board everyone’s ideas, suggestions and opinions in every aspect of the making of the film.
Anyway! With the help of Annie, we have a room booked for tomorrow at 12-2pm. This is a VERY short amount of time. We need to allow ourselves 45 minutes to set up and pack away the equipment and props etc, leaving us just an hour to film the scene. This isn’t long at all so pleaseeee let’s not fall out and just get on with it.
I’ve asked the extras to come in for 12pm and was thinking that, whilst some of us set up the room, one or two of us could run up and meet them outside Owen building.
We checked out the room tonight and it has A LOT of echo, so Mark will have to do his best with the sound. The classroom also holds 44 and, as we only have a few extras coming in, we will have to move the furniture around to make this less obvious – if worst comes to worst though, it could be quite effective that people are skipping his class.
Sam, the props list for tomorrow is as follows:
- · Condoms
- · A clear plastic box
- · A banana
- · Pads of paper
- · Posters for the walls
- · Calculator
- · Whiteboard markers
- · A coffee cup
- · A register – the names can be made up apart from Shaun Robinson
- · Shirt/tie for Jack
- · A small bin
- · Dictionary
See you tomorrow at 10.15am everybody. We’re thinking that Josh can have a short rehearsal and I think we should maybe put together a filming schedule. We also need to pick up the equipment.
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