The Filming Weekend

The run up to the filming weekend I was nervous but excited. With the experience I had gained from the previous film weekend I felt that not a great deal could go wrong. The cast was set with my cousin filling in as the businessman role and a few extras agreeing to sit in and watch as the audience for The Cure showcase, we had the necessary equipment, props and locations for a successful weekend.
The first day went swimmingly. The majority of the shots were at the Michael Tippett centre or around the university grounds and despite there being a few extra's dropping out, we worked with the amount of people we had, all of us constantly laughing throughout the day. There were scenes that our main actor took a different approach to the character than we would have liked, but as he joined us at short notice we were thankful to have someone dedicated to a whole weekends filming at all. We were all surprised at how early we finished on the first day, it just went to show how well we were working. Finishing early also gave us an oppotunity to play around with some extra shots which may later prove useful within the editing.

The second day of filming we were a little more pushed for time. Although we had finished all the filming at the university, we needed to continue at Liz and Patrick's houses with the much more complex, dialogue based scenes. The main scene where 'Konrad' mixes his potion was also key on our second day of filming and we (as an after thought) probably should have completed one of these scenes the previous day when we finished early, however our time schedule did hold true in the end.

When we finished filming, we immediately went through the footage we'd obtained over the weekend, attempting to sort out where we would begin with regard to the editing. Looking at a lot of the footage there were some scenes the majority of us weren't happy with, mainly due to some of the acting. We decided that in an attempt to make the viewing more enjoyable for our audiences, that if we added a voice over narration that we would record whilst editing, it would therefore enhance the comedic elements that we initially set out to involve. The weekend as a whole went really well, apart from some of the acting we worked really well as a team, this was probably due to the fact that we were allowed to choose who we worked with on this film as opposed to our groups being chosen for us. This allowed us to get on well as friends and play to each others strengths.