After many long weeks of pre production, planning, stress and excitement at the same time, my group entered production and it was an experience to say the least. Before production started, i filled out the safety checklist and found it a little confusing at first with the spreadsheet but realised how many things can possibly go wrong and thought twice in what i was writing.
My groups production schedule was the 23rd and the 22nd of may. On the 21st, we experimented with audio which was very handy for each of us. This experiment helped us to get the hang of it and not waste time during production. I also experimented with costuming and how colour can interpret meaning in which i did with my character i wore all black with a little white singlet underneath, symbolising something wrong with my character, i am all deeply full of something bad but deep down after the drugs, i crash out.
On the first day of production, i had a lot of fun on and was a long day but each of us had a blast making it which was what i was proud of. We started off at around 11am, i picked the boys up from campus in the city, grabbed gear and went for a little road trip to Caulfield at our set. Lucky for us, our schedule that we created was for the beach scene (ending) to happen today and we were very thankful that it was a nice sunny day. Before the beach scene, we shot the start of the film. I was proud of not only myself but my group because although it was hard to get into character, once we got in the groove, we wanted to get this done in the best way without rushing and that’s what we did.
I feel that this day, i took a leap of faith for my group in my performance. As we drove to the beach (Brighton), the moon was quickly approaching and i locked my promise that i would go into the ocean fully clothed just for our scene to work. The nerves were gone, they were gone because i was fully covered in water and freezing, it was definitely worth it because the shot apparently worked out so great.
On the second day of production it was quite different to our first. This day was different because we had a deadline on our hands, the equipment expiring. We had to get the Uber Driver scenes done, flashback scenes done and the famous tunnel scene. We realised that we needed to not only try hard but also not to rush because that would make us miss a scene. I feel that each of our inventions in what we wanted to do in this short film was achieved and i am very excited to see how it all turns out.