This week was a massive week for our group (and for most groups I’m sure). We had two huge days of filming on Sunday and Monday. We picked up where we left off from last Wednesday’s shooting on Sunday, having an all-day filming session in the city. We met at Flinders Street station and began filming all over the streets of Melbourne. Most of the footage we were filming on Sunday related to the montage sequence in our film, a sequence of our main character Agent Whyte having just arrived in 2024 from 1964 as she explores all the different aspects of modern society in Melbourne.

Throughout the day, we actually found that we needed/wanted to go off script a bit; some scenes needed to be restructured to fit the settings we had available. No drastic changes were made that affected the overall narrative, just a few pieces here and there that were added or changed. For example, we decided on set that Whyte should arrive in 2024 coming from the inside of a toilet cubicle instead of just appearing in the middle of Flinders Street station. Small elements like this that we accessible to us through our surroundings helped us develop the narrative a bit more than what was in the script. This has also taught me about the astronomical amount of planning that goes into planning a film; hopefully in the future we can do more location scouting ahead of filming so we can anticipate what the settings will be like to film. Whilst this was a big day, I personally had a lot of fun and I hope my group did too.

Furthermore, we had another big filming day on Monday. We were aiming to get the rest of the scenes filmed which was very ambitious of us, considering we didn’t get as much done as we hoped on Sunday, but we surprised ourselves by achieving this. We had almost all of our characters being filmed on this day (not that we have heaps of characters, but we were filming more people than Sunday, and all in different locations across the city). One particular scene that I enjoyed filming was the final fight scene, when Whyte finally confronts Wolley. We were so exhausted by the end of this but were deliriously happy to be finished with filming!

Next, on Wednesday, we began the editing process. This was quite tedious as we had to watch all the clips and select the best ones (I had to leave early so big thank you to the rest of my group for finishing this). Generally, all the clips we had were of good quality, but there were two scenes that had very strange audio that we didn’t pick up on during filming. One of the lapel microphones must have been acting up. I believe we have a temporary solution to this, but it’s something we can discuss and work through next week. Overall, this week entailed an enormous amount of work, time, and effort, but it was totally worth it. I’m beyond proud of my group for everything we have achieved and am keen to enter the next stage of our production Rouge!