Second Day Of Filming For Christmas Ads

13th December 2016

This day started like any other, I got to college around 9 and went straight to the green room, but it was locked. I went down to reception to have maintenance open it for us, after finding Andrew on the way. This day we decided to start filming on my Christmas advert on top of finishing off the filming for Amy's. After acquiring the gear we needed for the day of filming we set off to got to Amy's grandparent's house. Once we arrived we realised how tight the schedule actually was for the day of filming, so we got right down to it. We started by filming the time lapse shots for my advert. While doing this we changed some of the decorations around on the Christmas tree, so it looked like some time had passed. We also sorted the presents that we were able to use into small piles so we could place them under the tree in each shot to, once again, make it look like some time had passed. We had finished shooting these shots Stephen arrived for his scenes in Amy's advert, as we were finishing off hers as well. We began filming some of these scenes before Stephen needed a break, so we had a bite to eat, pizza. After this we got Stephen into a change of clothes and filmed the rest of his scenes for the day. By this point the day was almost over we decided to start planning the next day of filming my advert. We had finished filming all of Amy's so we thought we would use the last of the week to film mine and edit them over the holidays. This was, however, when we realized that filming my advert was going to be next to impossible, as the acting students and other people we needed to be in it weren't going to be available to film when we were. After a long time deliberating this point we diced that the best course of action would be to just cancel the second advert entirely, as it was going to be way too much hassle to get it filmed and edited. This was a hard decision to make, as it meant I wasn't going to have directed anything at this point in time, and would need to wait until the short film topic came around to have another chance. I do, however, think it was a good decision to cancel the second advert, as we would probably still have been doing it weeks later, what with all the work we've been assigned since. But other than that it was a really great day of filming, and definitely showed us some new things, such as working with children.