Since my last post we have all agreed that the best location for us to shoot is in building 9 as we all have access to that building for the weekend and it means that we are all familiar with our surrounding which we hope will make the shoot run much smoother. The next stage was to find our actors, we decided as a group that the best way to divide up the work was for each writer to find their own actor for their main character. This of course left me doing nothing so I took on the task of creating a call sheet for the days of filming. This involved a lot of correspondence! Working around a lot of people schedules both from the group and from the actors, we had to be really flexible because we weren’t paying or getting paid and people have jobs and lives that they can’t always put on hold. Eventually we sorted out the best days and the most efficient call times for the actors. It was also mentioned that we need to work in a lunch time as well as a rehearsal time, which made sense because we didn’t give the actors a lot of time to read the script!

This was a good exercise for me in learning to focus on other peoples needs and trying to work around them, when I normally work on shoots by myself or with my crew that I’ve worked with we tend to go with the flow and end up shooting for a long period of time and don’t necessarily worry about a shooting schedule or blocking in a lunch break. It is good to get away from my gorilla style filming and work on something a bit more legit. It will be interesting to see how helpful sticking to the call sheet and how easy it is to predict how long a shot will take. I do see some problems sticking to such a strict schedule but I guess this is generally the industry standard so we’ll see.

Here are the call sheets for the weekend: