Ben

The first part of Week 6 for our group was mostly centred around pre-production tasks. This included organising crew roles, and deciding on whether to cast external actors for the pilot or to simply use members of our group as the actors. Ultimately, we went with the latter, primarily to speed up production and ensure we could get shooting during Friday’s class, rather than having to delay the initial shoot to find a suitable cast.

Unfortunately, this short timeframe meant that our shoots were a little disorganised, but after location scouting on the Friday morning, we dove deep into production on set, and managed to successfully film about half of our script on that day. We decided that it would be best to shoot the remainder during our week off, to ensure that the product we produced was of the highest quality possible, instead of cramming all the filming into one day. The second day of shooting, which fell on the following Tuesday, ran relatively smoothly, leaving the remainder of the week for members to get stuck into the post-production process.