15/01/09 - production log 1

WORK DONE:

HOLMBURY ST. MARY CHURCH:

1.1 (09:00) Met with production group: Rory Skeoch, Oli Bayliss and myself and assistants Luke and Simon outside the theatre.

1.2 (09:00-09:20) Transport props: Nativity set and wood shaving, costumes: priests outfit and nuns out fit, lights: 2 boxes of red-head's plus blue gels, camera: JBC, tracking, spider dolly and gather our actor to play the priest: Mark Philipp-Morgan onto the mini bus.

1.3 (09:20-09:30) Travel to location. And call other actor, nun: Sarah Driver. To check that she is on her way and is aware of the location of the church in Holmbury St Mary.

1.4 (09:30-11:00) Set up track by moving the pews in order to place the track straight. Then keep kicking and shaking it into place until the camera can roll over it without and jolting- therefore creating a smooth track. Whilst doing this start to set up the lights in each window to create light as if it is coming from the ext. Whilst adding blue gels onto each light to make sure it looks like we are shooting in day light and consequently eliminating the orange in the red-head lights.

1.5 (11:00-12:00) Rehearse through scene with actors, timing it as it goes along to make sure it’s the same each time and fits in with the timing we need it to be. Then rehearse the pan with Oli and Rory operating the camera on the spider dolly whilst I timed it and directed it in order to make sure it is the right length and that the actors we well rehearsed before we went into our final shooting. We planned on our shooting schedule in this time to also sort out the focus for our pan, but due to it not being relevant on the day we spent more time correcting and perfecting ourselves before we began our shooting.

1.6 (12:00-13:00) During this time we carried out our preliminary shooting combined with our main shots. We took about 6 shots all about the same time (40 seconds – 1 minute). During this I timed to make sure it was roughly the same time and directed the actors after each shoot if they did something incorrect.

1.7 (13:00-13:30) Pack up equipment carefully and get actors to sign there contracts. Travel back to school.

HURTWOOD HOUSE SCHOOL THEATRE:

2.1 (13:30-14:00) Break for lunch.
2.2 (14:00-15:00) Set up the nativity set in the theatre, on a stall close to the door just in case of an emergency. Equipping an extra person with a fire extinguisher to stop the burning of the figure after we get our shots. Pour lighter fluid on the wooden nativity models and drop a match onto them and film wide shots and close ups of each person.

2.3 (15:00-15:30) Clean up in the theatre. This included getting rid of all the ashes and dust caused by the fire and dispose of the figures and bar making sure that they are not on fire anymore by using the fire extinguisher.

HURTWOOD HOUSE SCHOOL BASEMENT:

1.1 (15:30-16:00) Set up table, tablecloth and props at the location whilst setting up the lights – one coming from the top of the basement above the stairs and one inside the basement. Also set up the camera in the basement on the tripod.

1.2 (16:00-16:30) Shoot the clips that we want – 10 seconds each do that there is enough footage for editing.

1.3 (16:30-16:45) pack up equipment carefully and return it to the correct places.