22nd October - Contingency Day: Prep For Shooting Week

The day before the week of shooting.

On this Saturday, we thought it would be best to walk around town finding the locations that we might like to film at. Alex showed us the line in which we weren't allowed to pass when we would be shooting. We went through a lot of tunnels and alleyways that we knew for certain we would use. We also checked out the park which is past the ITV Studios and as a group we decided we would film the fantasy scenes there as it had a circular setting which would show how life is just a circle with symmetry occurring from every corner. At this point in the film, everything in Molly's life would be going great and so the use of a circle of grass signifies that her life is whole, complete.

After location scouting we went to see the Raw Shorts film, Hallows Eve. This film linked up with Halloween nicely as it's genre was horror. After the film, we were able to witness a Q+A with the director and producer as well as the main actress within the film. There were a lot of other filmmakers and other people who love and have something to do with film, so when we came to network after with free drinks, we were able to talk to them and make contacts. As we were invited to attend the networking session afterwards, Callum and I, as director and producer took advantage of this opportunity as we knew there would be actors lurking around, to find some one to play the main female protagonist in our film. We asked the actress from the film we just watched of the Raw Shorts if she would like be in it, nevertheless, she already had filming planned of the week we wanted to shoot, which was the next week. 

We then found these other girls who told us they weren't actors, however we still had a nice chat to get to know them anyway. We finally found a petite girl who said yes to being in our film and I took down her contact details to then tell her more information later in the evening to get ready for the shoot on Tuesday. Furthermore, after I messaged her later that day she said she couldn't attend the shoot because she found out she had compulsory lectures at uni. This then gave me a bigger challenge as we had to film within the next few days so I sent out casting calls but no one could do it. I finally found a Facebook group called 'Actors UK' and asked for the actress on that and I got a reply or two almost instantly an this is where I found Molly at such late notice. We also got her to come in on an extra day just so we could meet her. 

So after this whole planning process the wait was worth it.