Production Log 1

This week, we successfully began filming for our short film which is about a guy called Freddy, who has split personality disorder and is unaware of it. The split personality takes control over his body and his split personality side of him is the one who goes out and kills his friend.

Freddy sees the masked man in distressing dreams killing his friend and discovers at the end that he is the killer. During this we successfully filmed parts of the waking up scene for Freddy, part of the forest scene and we had completed the meeting scene.

During this week we had face a lot of challenges due to some of our cast and crew they had upcoming events to attend. Therefore being unable to film on some days. We had faced a lot of challenges such as a lot of time we were meant to film was delayed, this was due to the actor misunderstanding the time to come for the filming and they ended up being late. Some of our cast and crew were late because of traffic. Our target for next week to finish filming. On Monday we will make sure that we had filmed the alleyway scene. We also had to scrap one character within our film because they could not attend filming (Alex aka Nicole).

During this week I felt that there was lack of organisation from all of our crew were very disorganised including myself. During this week I felt quite tired as I was fasting, therefore I felt that it was hard top concentrate when filming.

On one of the day’s this week, during the filming of the waking up scene, we had decided to scrap some parts of our screenplay and shooting script as we had felt that it would add tension within the film since it was a horror. We had review our shooting and screenplay again since one of our actors could not attend to filming and therefore we had to scrap any film of her. We also monitored some of our actors as they were fast including myself. We made sure we had asked if they were feeling okay and not feeling dizzy and if they felt they needed a break.

We are prioritising on making fake blood as we will need to film the death scene at some point next week. We had to give an advance notice to our teacher telling him that we could not film much this week as there was a lot going on.

Overall I feel that we may have a chance of meeting our deadline.