Shooting Day 1

The first day of shooting was a lot more stressful than anyone anticipated. We threw ourselves in at the deep end but not filming on Friday night (not everyone was available) which meant that there was a lot to do on Saturday, all of which had to be shot in town. We started at about 8.30am because we needed to shoot main high streets but not be surrounded by people. The first scene that needed shooting was a montage scene of our main character shopping, this proved difficult to achieve because, though we knew the types of shots we wanted, we weren't sure of the right location. However, after a few attempts at shooting in different locations we started to get usable footage.
Another problems we were battling all day was the weather, not only was the rain a problem in terms of continuity between shots, but also in terms of keeping all the equipment dry and undamaged. Fortunately there were enough of us there to keep track of everything and constantly hold umbrellas over Adam and the camera. Despite this, and a few issues with sound at the beginning, we got into a rhythm with the filming and everyone knew what they were expected to do. We took a break just before filming the new scene 7 but there were some decisions that needed to be made. I thought that it would be easy enough to shoot the rewritten version of the scene as everyone knew it and we didn't have a market to film in. However Lydia (our director) knew of a market that wasn't far away which she thought would be perfect for the original scene so, having got their permission, we shot there instead.
Luckily everything worked out and we ended up getting everything filmed that we needed for the day, but we did wrap earlier than expected. I think that the rain spurred us on.