Filming - 22.02.13

On Saturday 22nd February, Carolina, Phoebe and I went round to Phoebe's house so that we could finally film our opening sequence shots. We were ready with our Lights, Camera, Tripod and enthusiasm ... well as much enthusiasm as you can have at 10 in the morning!

We bought all the props we needed and the first thing we did was make phoebes room look just how we wanted and place all the props around the room which we needed, e.g. all the things we would pan over, like the Vogue magazines and the 50 Shades books. We really underestimated how much time it would take us and all the little details we needed to make sure were perfect. My mum was extremely helpful since I had to keep ringing her to find stuff that I had at home which we didn't think we would need and our friend Melisa also decided she would help us out by being our assistant for a day which was also really helpful! Altogether it took us 2 hours just to set up the scene for the shots.

Carolina and Phoebe clearing away

Half way through the clearing process

Phoebe and I trying to get the curtains level

Dressing table and chest done!

Phoebe setting up

Making the bed

Other dressing table done

Once we got filming we realised that it was actually incredibly helpful that we had written a good script and drawn a good storyboard because it saved us a lot of time and hassle since we didn't need to figure out what our shots were going to be.

Another thing that was quite difficult was trying to fit the MASSIVE lights and the MASSIVE tripod into TINY spaces, especially in the bathroom! But somehow we managed to get around it by holding the camera by hand and just trying to be really steady and keeping the lights in doorways and such to try and brighten up the rooms.

On the Saturday, Carolina had to leave by 1 o'clock since she had a doctors appointment which meant that we could only keep Ollie, the cutest dog in the world, around for so long. Because of this we decided to film the shots that included the dog first ... little did we realise how hard it actually is working with animals! We managed to film the dog scenes after a lot of trouble trying to get Ollie to cooperate and making sure Phoebe didn't die in her killer heels.

Once Carolina left, Melisa, Phoebe and I tried to get the rest of our filming done. We followed the storyboard "to a T" and filmed all of the scenes; it took us until 6pm but we are happy that it is all done because the best bit is the editing!