Filming Schedule

Filming

For the day of filming, there was a lot for Molly, Sophie and I to think about. For example, the weather permitted on the day was vital in order to help us achieve the desired effect from our film. Considering the eerie aspects of our production, it was necessary for the weather to match this, in order for the ambience on screen to be accurate. Therefore, before we set out on planning our day for filming, we checked the weather on line to check that it was grey and miserable, which is just what we were looking for. However, filming was automatically made difficult seeing as we had a 4 year old girl on scene, Olivia, who happened to be playing the main part. Because of this, it was difficult for us to spend an enormous amount of time outside due the cold air temperature. Taking this into consideration, we decided to film as close to the middle of the day as possible, meaning we had the optimum amount of sun and heat, without it changing the lighting on camera too juristically.

Availability of our actors was also a difficult obstacle to overcome. Seeing as both main characters, other than Olivia (Phoebe and Ben) are at a stage in life where they are needing to work, we had to constantly stay in contact during the two week process leading up to filming to determine whether they were still available to us. This did make it difficult, as for us directors it meant we all had to be available and ready to film whenever they were. We did achieve filming successfully all in one day, with the correct, original cast of actors.

We also had to try and coincide our filming with a day where the beach wasn't too heavily occupied. This is obviously very difficult, seeing as the North Norfolk Coast is a very popular weekend getaway location for City occupants, and general locals. The beach needed to be relatively empty in order for us to gain the desired effect of our production, the eerie, disoriented ambience needed to be prominent. The miserable weather we decided to film in helped to make this possible.