Day 3 shooting was actually from our deleted scene during the production and on the script:
Before we decided to delete this scene, we thought it would make sense to have it at the beginning, to establish that the girl is all alone on her way to a destination of some sort or is simply just carrying on with her life. However, as we stitched all the scenes together, we thought it wouldn’t make sense to add in the girl’s part without the perspective of the guy, which we didn’t get to shoot. However, we still had the full day of day #3 shooting and managed to fully edit the deleted scene. Check it out:
You can see that there is almost little to no relation when it comes to the meeting of the boy and the girl without the boy’s perspective so we decided to scrap it off. If we got the boy’s perspective, it would work, but unfortunately, we didn’t have time to shoot due to schedule clashes and time restraints.
The last day of the production was one of the most challenging shoots we had to do for our short film. There was a lot of movement involved in terms of the trains, escalators so it was difficult to get the perfect shot. We managed to capture the whole feel of the environment (I hope) through the variety of shots that were captured during the shoot.
Before the actual day of the shoot, however, we discussed the options that we had for the location changes because of the unpredictability of Melbourne’s weather. For the whole week, it was supposedly sunny until the actual day of the outdoor shooting we wanted to do. As seen in the script, it was supposed to be held in the tram stops and trams in Docklands because we thought that it was the least crowded. We never found out whether it would be busy because the weather did not allow for us to shoot outdoors. Instead, we used Southern Cross as our Plan B to combat the weather and it luckily worked in our favour – the lighting wasn’t too dark nor too light to film outdoors with the camera receiving the right amount of light.
The filming was all going great until we had to go into the actual train carriages – the real challenge of this shoot. Initially, we were planning to film inside the tram which I thought was easier whilst in pre-production but we had to scrap that plan and continue with filming inside the train. One of the positive aspects of filming inside the train station is the frequency of the trains meaning we can get in out of the City Loop as much as we want. In all the other aspects, we had to take rush hour into consideration alongside the other commuters who were in a rush to go home.
We in from Southern Cross to Melbourne Central, Melbourne Central to Richmond and finally, Richmond to Flinders Street Station. You can imagine how stressful it must have been, having to transfer three times to get the perfect shot.
However, it was worth it and we eventually got the desired footage!