We began filming on Monday, Amy and I picked up the equipment from the techs at RMIT and met with the rest of the group at Harper’s house. Our first day of filming began slowly, as people arrived, they began to familiarize themselves with their respective equipment. Sam and Harper worked together to operate the camera, they unfortunately had a loose viewscreen to work around which made checking shots difficult between the DOP (Sam) and Director (Harper). Amy was on sound with the assistance of Matylda and Trang, who also helped with running props and checking continuity whilst I was occupied acting as a driver.

We ran into problems as the shoot progressed, after a late lunch group members had to leave and street traffic increased as it was school pickup time, so we decided to wrap up filming for the day and film the final pieces on Wednesday.
On day 2, I had all the props packed and picked up the filming gear from the tech store in my car as we had to transport a lighting kit as well for Wednesday’s shoot. In last-minute prop acquisition, I bought milk, cured meat, and some strips of beef and planned to wrap them around the hands of the mannequin which conveniently unscrewed. The result was underwhelming, and they weren’t included in the final piece, but I took a photo of them anyway.

Hand Photo

We had time before our actor for Charlie (Matthew Robinson) was due to arrive, so we shot some exterior shots of Harper’s house and planned to finish shooting the car scene. As the weather was different the entire car scene was reshot with Harper’s housemate acting as the driver, Matylda, and Trang shared sound responsibilities. We reached the same point as the previous day, and we agreed to have a late lunch as school pickup began again and other group members had to leave.

We resumed shooting when our actor Matt arrived; we then shot until 8 pm and fully knocked out all the interior dialogue filming. We will have to schedule another day to film our montage in Fitzroy Gardens and an original edit of the car scene Amy made was scrapped as well. Hopefully, we can get the shots we need when filming at Edithvale General Store on Sunday.