Pre-Shoot Drama

Having finalised a script and shot-list Mark (our producer) emailed me a copy of the shedual and asked me to fill it out as I had more of an idea about the working shot-list and where we would need to be as well as for how long. I’d never written a shooting schedule before and had no idea how long each scene would take to finish so the final copy that I emailed out to everyone was more of a guideline rather than a definitive schedule. However on the Friday before filming, Mark called me to say that he’d gone to Green Park Station (one of our filming locations) to reconfirm that it was possible to shoot there, and let them know what time we’d be there. The owners of Green Park station had changed their minds about allowing us to shoot there which left us with a massive problem, scene 7, one of the most important scenes in the short film was all set in a market, and now we didn’t have one. It being the night before filming was due to start, I decided that our only option was to rewrite scene 7 completely and set it in a different place. Which I then did, I also extended the scene because there were some concerns that the film wasn’t going to be long enough. I managed the get in touch with everyone and let them know about the new scene and emailed everyone a copy, so by Saturday morning everyone was prepared.