First day of filming!!!!

Oky Doky - today was our first day of filming!

After about a trillion setbacks (well thats what it felt like) such as actors contacting us saying they can't do the date, or one of our group being unable to make it, we finally got some stuff filmed!

Our main actor (Ruby's dad) was unable to do today, so we thought we would shoot all the hostage shots instead!! We have been planning for the day for a few weeks and I was so excited to film it, however this morning we got a phonecall saying due to unseen family problems, a friends mum who was going to act as the mum was now unable to act for us today - Ruby and I discussed what we could do for this, and we came up with the idea that instead we could scrap the character of the mum from the story, and instead have 3 children - so we called our lovely friend Ryan (we were filming in his barn and his brother was acting in it already) and asked him to help out; luckily he said yes so we went ahead with this idea!!

When we got there I decided to take a few pictures of the setting we had chosen, and i've also taken some pictures of the actors in costume so you can see exactly how our planning relates to the actual filming!
Heres a few pictures of the part of the barn we used;

And once we got the actors set up (in their pyjamas... in the freezing cold!) I took some pictures of them so show how we set it all up and also their costumes along with hostage props etc.

I was also going to show our use of lighting in these pictures, however Kath didn't actually turn up to filming even after we organised the filming date well in advance and made sure everyone was sure of when and where it was going on. One of Kath's roles was lighting, and for this shot we were going to use huge lights around the hostages however due to Kath not turning up we had to improvise and so used natural light instead.

So heres a picture of our actors in costume on set :D

As you can see, their costumes reflect age, gender and the fact that they are protagonists - I'm really happy with the outcome of the costumes, and also with the props I used to show that they are beign held hostage!

:D