Blog Seven

03 - 11 - 10

Meeting.

We began the meeting by discussing locations and permissions. Ed had created a table that showed which locations we need and what we need from them. An example of this is the house we need; it must also have a back garden and a window or view from the kitchen to back garden. This enabled us to see exactly what we must find location wise. Dan offered the use of his house, as he has a fair sized living room and garden which we need. He also has the view from kitchen to garden. Dan will speak to his landlady about permission for this.

Ed will look at locations in town to find appropriate places for our scenes. Once he has found suitable areas he will contact Bath Film Office to attain their permission. To help him with the locations planning, I will take on arranging on campus locations.

This includes:

·         One classroom

·         One office

·         One outdoor location with seating

We then began discussing a shooting schedule so that Ed and I will be able to book locations according to this. We plan to shoot:

Friday – Dan’s house

Saturday- All university locations, town in the evening

Sunday – Town in the day time

I will get in contact with the rooms and gardens managers at Bath Spa, regarding filming on Saturday.

We also decided in this meeting that we will not change the costume of Dan or Olivia in his imagination scene. It seems to cause too much difficulty regarding continuity, more so than it is worth.

I then urged Kay to get on with casting. She said she had people in mind and had spoken to them, and that she would get on with casting them. We had previously decided that Kay would arrange an audition but Kay had found it difficult organising a room. She said the only room available this week was Friday pm. I told her that if she could contact the actors and arrange time slots of the audition to go ahead and book the room. If she was unable to do this, I suggested holding one to one readings with whichever actors were available and sending the script to any other potential actors to have a look at.

Previously we had talked about using the Students Union Bar as one of our locations, as we thought this would be a good place to use as the store that Dan and Greg break into. After the meeting Ed and I went to the SU office to see if this would be possible as Ed had not yet received a reply to the email he sent enquiring about this. We spoke to one of the Su managers who said he had received an email about this from Ed, but hadn’t had time to reply yet, that it should be possible and to send him another email with the dates and times on it.

Ed will follow this up during the week.

After the meeting:

I photocopied several copies of the release forms to ensure we have plenty for production weekend.

Kay sent me the facebook pages of some actors she thinks may be appropriate. I have sent them messages regarding this and to see how Kay has organised auditions with them. The actors who replied I sent copies of the script to.

After the meeting; an update.

I have found actors to play Greg and Sophie, they are both people I know and who I feel will do well and be reliable.

After talking to two actors Kay forwarded to me, they told me that they went to the audition on Friday and were happy that they got cast.

On Sunday I received a message from the actor playing our lead role Dan. He told me he was sorry but he could no longer be in our film. I immediately rang Kay to see who else she had seen may be suitable to play Dan. She wasn’t sure, and so I suggested that we may have to move the cast around, to upgrade a smaller role to Dan and find a new minor character instead. She suggested one of the actors she had sent me on facebook, and I asked who she had cast him as previously. Kay replied that she had not cast him, nor the other actors she had sent me links to. It was then that Kay told me she did not hold an audition at all.

I then realised we had no main character, as he had just dropped out, and no smaller characters as Kay did not hold any auditions or readings. The only actors we had confirmed were the two friends of mine who will play Greg and Sophie. I told Kay I would work something out and find a new lead actor.

After talking on the phone to one of the actors who thought he had auditioned for us, but had infact auditioned for another group and got cast, I decided to cast him as Dan. He could film with us all day Thursday, Friday and half of Sunday. I decided that we would have to work around this as we had no other options. This was a decision I made on my own as I was the only other person besides Kay who had been in contact with any of the other actors, and I felt as producer it was my responsibility to confirm the cast when the casting director did not. I then got on to contacting the members of my group and letting them know. Luckily, it turned out that everyone could make the new arrangements, except for Kay who would have to miss Thursday.

I then found some actors to be extras, and Kay found two smaller roles. I believe the casting is complete now; I will discuss this and all other final arrangements with the group in our meeting tomorrow.