First Major Project - Production retrospective

this post will be split into four sections, outlining how shooting went on each day.

DAY 1 - Tues 10
on the first day of shooting we shot the secondary locations, due to previously mentioned issues, we started shooting at 6 pm and shot until about 7-8 pm, I realized only too late that, for an unknown reason one of the scenes we shot had no sound, in review of the footage i believe this was due to a compression error in the Mpeg 2 video files, numerous error messages were shown when capturing the footage to Premier pro regarding the rushes files, thankfully this was an isolated incident as the rest of the footage was captured correctly. due to the loss of my extras, an entire plot-pivotal scene had to be cut. this scene was not filmed today as it would have been if all had gone well.

DAY 2 - Weds 11
filming on Wednesday had to be cancelled due to several technical malfunctions, these where fixed by Thursday, however troubleshooting the issues took most of Wednesday evening.  the issues where regarding the clip mike and radio system, the radio system was un-synched, causing the receiver to not receive the signal from the transmitter.

DAY 3 - Thurs 12
the shoot on Thursday went relatively well, heavy winds impacted audio quality however the radio-mike was luckily free of distortion and noise, this does however reflect in the footage as the actor using the clip mike is perfectly clear, the other however isn't. I did have issues with my actor playing "the man", he, unlike my leads didn't take his role too seriously and at some points disrupted their performances by "taking the piss" a bit behind my back, this was annoying due to the extremely tight schedule we where working too. shooting eventually had to be stopped early due to even heavier winds and rain.

RESHOOT Day Thurs 26
the reshoot went extremely well, we managed to get all planned shoots done to a higher quality than previous shoots, this, i believe was due to the crew's experience and the even tighter schedule we had to keep, this was due to the cast's availability,  exactly one hour of shooting was done this day, as agreed beforehand. this was a very productive day.of all the shoot days I am most happy with how this shooting experience went when compared to the other shoot days, we were well-oiled and focused.