Plans are underfoot for the next round of filming. We are approaching the half way mark which is an awesome milestone for all involved. Hopefully these days can be scheduled quickly with the google calendar making this easier. We’re looking at end of September and start of October and the first date requires quite a few zombies …

All done and dusted by 3.30 – sweet. Great days filming. Had a dolly, circular tracks and Steadicam. David Sinclair joined for his first day. Thanks to Sarah, his daughter, and everyone else. Going to be fun editing this as the camera was tracking back and forth. Lets see what happens…

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The madness of Day 08 approached and have to admit I’m feeling a bit apprehensive about this one. Its a tough one to shoot and a pivotal scene in the film. Also our usual sound guy, Carl, is unable to be with us – which just adds another bit of pressure. Still we can take it ……

All systems go for 6th July. Big thanks to Mambia, again, for arranging use of DMU. Its gonna be an awesome day with a big scene with 6 characters. This is a pivotal scene in the film where these characters decide whether they are going to stay or leave the evacuation centre. It’ll be a great scene to film. We’re taking a high risk strategy by using steady cam and/or circular tracks ( by kind permission on DMU ) to revolve around the cast who will be in a group. Dave and Neill will bounce back and forth to get random movement to match the indecision of the characters. Getting a character on screen while talking is not a priority, in fact avoiding this will work well with the camera catching up as a character speaks. Its the kind of scene that will either look awesome or pants. Lets see!

Currently trying to plan ahead shooting dates for June and July. Its a tricky business to organise especially when everyone is working around their ‘day jobs’ so hopefully this advance notice will make it easier all round. Next shooting dates will, is all goes to plan, be the 25th May. We will be back at the university for this one.

Had some good news today. Matt D has sorted out our next location. At the moment we are shooting the stand alone scenes before going back into DMU – our main location. We are now able to shoot at the toilets of a local cricket club who i shall mention if Matt allows me to ! Just got to get everyone together on one of the next weekends now and then plan the return back to DMU. As for this weekend i am off to Manchester for some much needed non-film time. Meeting up with old Uni mates and can’t wait!

Had to cancel todays shoot as still not well at all. Damn this is frustrating !

Just a short day this one but it just about killed me! Has a bad bout of illness coming on and stupidly carried on with the planned filming. We’ve so much invested in this that its hard to so no when everones allready lined up and ready to go. A simple shoot with the camera pointing out a window as a person attempts to escape from the facility. Grabbed the shot, came home, collapsed.

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Another cool days shooting. After last nights panic it all went to plan. Cast and crew were assembled at a secret location by the leisurely start of 9:30. The location was sorted by a member of the crew who shall remain unnamed and myself and Neill hadn’t seen it before the day. After a choice of two rooms we settled on the boardroom which suited us perfectly. Matt took a photo so we could replace items as we found them, then the room was cleared. Both Alex and Sandra were untested for us as this was there first scenes. Alex did a consummate job and held his own in the shooting environment. Sandra’s performance was stunning – she nailed her character off the bat and gave a powerful performance which shone on camera. Expect to see more of these actors as they both deserve to progress in the film world.

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Just before Day 05 filming starts I’d like to thank Keith Allott from Line Out (an East Midlands film making organisation) for his 11th hour help. Due to unforeseeable circumstance we were without any sound equipment. After much frantic ringing Farid accessed a mixer and Neill a Beachtek adaptor to input XLR feeds to the FX1E. Still without a mic and boom I phoned around on the scrounge. We had a great bit of luck as Keith had a boom, XLR lead and mic which he had been using for shooting that day. Nice one brother! So anyone in the East Midlands looking for any film making help be it a course, equipment rental or general advice then check out Line Out.

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