Day 1 and 2 Shoot

The first day of the shoot was revolving around the first scene of the script in Encliffe Park. Our whole group was there with our actress Ellie (playing Abby) and we got to work straight away. Our producer, Ellen, had already visited the location earlier in the week and in combination with our director, Luke.F’s, shot list notes, we started filming straight away. However, due to the lack of dialogue in this particular scene, being on sound meant recording atmospheric sounds around the location with the sound recorder Luke.H. An issue we found was the wind was very strong that day so we couldn’t get a lot of good stereo recordings of the park, but we did get a few along with wildlife sounds (birds) and child’s laughter which I could use in sound design to portray happy emotions (like in the end scene). I will review these captured sounds with Luke later in the week in case we need to re-record some of them or get more sounds from that location at a later date.

The second day of filming was in the house and due to the time limit we had in there and the amount of shots we needed made the day a lot more hectic so I had to do a lot of the sound recording myself, as well as help out set up cameras, and carry equipment around. However we did numerous takes of the scenes we needed to get at different camera angles and compositions in which time I also recorded 3/4 sections of the same dialogue which will allow me to select the best one in post and use it with the in conjunction with the variety of shots. I also recorded a few non-diagetic sounds such as the door opening and closing, a bag being thrown on a table, and just the general sounds of the actors walking within the room’s atmos. I am currently review these sounds to check for quality, renaming the files on the Marantz and writing up a list of sounds we still may need to record referring to Luke’s sound list.