All in all, today was...a train wreck form start to finish. We actually had far less to film than we had realised, and we did get some alright shots, but the rain made everything that little bit more depressing, both in terms of our group morale and the film itself. We were unbelievably cold, and wet, so we got what we could and gave up. We'll probably put what we did get up as test shots. Since today was a complete bust, we will have to reschedule our filming to accommodate reshoots of these sequences, which we plan to complete on Wednesday 12th February from 1.25pm, since the weather then is supposedly going to be alright.
One silver lining in the big ass cloud that was our day, however, was the new location we 'found' (read: borrowed from the other British film group after helping them out) as we felt that, while the mise-en-scene at Eltham high street was good, the stuff here was just on another level of Britishyness, and had the added benefit of being virtually empty of people, and I think we can all agree that shouts of 'Are you making a porn film?' will not be missed.
And here it is: our new location....(insert drum roll here).....
One silver lining in the big ass cloud that was our day, however, was the new location we 'found' (read: borrowed from the other British film group after helping them out) as we felt that, while the mise-en-scene at Eltham high street was good, the stuff here was just on another level of Britishyness, and had the added benefit of being virtually empty of people, and I think we can all agree that shouts of 'Are you making a porn film?' will not be missed.
And here it is: our new location....(insert drum roll here).....
Cold Harbour Estate!!!!
This is just better in every way. There's still shops in the background if we need them, there's a lovely long pathway we can do our tracking shot on, there's a little park we can use for our end scene, plus there's a whopping great block of flats in the back that gives a slightly more working class feeling than Eltham High street (no offense). We'll come back here on Wednesday and reshoot what we did today when, hopefully, it won't be raining. Goddamn British weather...