Our day of filming

On Sunday, we gathered at my house, which was the base and a few of the sets, at eleven o clock in the morning.

To prepare for the actors, the Cumha production team arrived early and stuck the photo of The Girl we had printed up on the wall of the bedroom. 

I started the day by giving all the actors a reminder on the plot and showing all of them the storyboard and shot-list, before we headed up to the bedroom to do Scene One. 

The most difficult shot to take for Scene One was the opening shot of the clock, as the room had been darkened and we struggled to find a balance between getting a clear view of the clock and not getting the reflection of the camera, but we eventually found a good balance.

The whole room was very dark in general, so we used a strong singular light right above the bed as our primary light and decided to lower the brightness in poster production. 

Our actors were very patient and extremely professional during shooting; those not on screen were silent and those that were carried out our instructions to a T. 

After we finished shooting Scene One, we took a fifteen minute tea break for everyone to recharge before going out to shoot Scene Two, the Dream Sequence scene. 

It was incredibly cold, so we're going to have to edit the shots in post production to make them appear warmer. Also, because we're only just coming out of winter, few plants are in bloom, so we had to use what we could find.

All in all, the Scene Two was a success, my personal favourite shot is the one of The Girl's mouth, with flowers in the background.

It's unfortunate that we won't get to use two of the dream sequence scenes we shot in school a few weeks ago because our original actor dropped out, but it can't be helped. 

Scene Three was always going to be the hardest as it's shot at the train station and we have no control over the trains and the crowds that would be there. Thankfully, due to the abysmal weather and the fact that it was the day after St. Patrick's Day, there were no crowds and we had the platform to ourselves. 

We showed up an hour earlier than the train we needed was due and took all of the shots, bar shot 27 as this shot involved The Girl getting off the train. 

We had to be ready for the train approaching, as we needed two shots at the same time: One of the back of The Boy's head and one of The Girl departing the train. We put the tripod and one camera up at where we roughly estimated the doors would open, and had our second camera ready behind The Boy's head as the train pulled up, and I also recorded the sound of the train on my phone, as we can use that effect for the soul bridge a few seconds earlier. 
We got very lucky, as the train pulled up very close to where we'd set up our cameras and no one else got on or off the train. 

The day was a great success and our actors were fantastic, especially those who agreed to help us last minute. We got everything we needed done an hour or two ahead of schedule, and now we can head straight into post-production. 

In school, we had to reshot the clock scene as the one we took originally is too dark, and it was impossible to read the time. The shot was also too grainy due to the bad lighting.