Lost Time - Production Blog

The 10th of March was our final shoot for the Lost Time production. This shoot is a re-shoot for Act 2 scene 1 as the shoot on Friday 28th February did not go as planned and we had many problems. We planned to film at 1PM and finish at 3:30PM. Since we were already at College we could start filming straight away. We begun filming at 1PM.  When dialogue was needed we faced another problem with recording audio with the TASCAM. The TASCAM can either take power for the DC adapter or 8xAA batteries. Because we were shooting outside, there was no options to use the DC adapter so we planned to get 16xAA batteries for the shoot and put 8xAA batteries into the TASCAM, although when I put the 8xAA batteries into the TASCAM, it would not turn on, swapped the batteries and it still would not turn on. We resorted into using the Panasonic to record dialogue. The Panasonic camera has an XLR port for the external microphone to record the dialogue on. All pr...

Today is the third production shoot day. We will film Act 2 scene 4 and Act 1 entirely today at Reece's House. On the risk assessment we planned to arrive at location to prepare and begin filming at 11:20am and finish filming at 3PM.  We arrived at the Location at 11:30 and begun to prepare for filming. We started filming Act 2 Scene 4 first so that one of the actors can leave early because she won't be needed for Act 1 filming. After we completed Act 2 Scene 4, we begun to prepare for Act 1 filming. The location for Act 1 is a bedroom where the main character Nathan will be in, writing in a Notebook, a seperate bedroom for our other character who will be making a CD for Nathan and an Attic where Nathan will be looking around in. We finished filming at 5PM, 2 hours later than we planned. The shoot is complete and one more shoot is required for the production which will take place on 10/03/2020.

Today is the second day for Lost Time productions shoot. We will be going to Ryde Arcadia and The Captains Table in Ryde to film Act 2 Scene 2 & 3. We have gained permission to film at the two locations and they have been risk assessed and we plan to record at 1PM. The weather for today is set to be sunny and clear of rain. Our first shoot was at The Captains Table to shoot Act 2 Scene 3 with Corey and Mollie. We arrived at 11:35pm and begun to setup the scene, we made sure that members of the public were aware that we will be filming at the location and we were not going to get them in frame. We begun filming at 12pm and we planned to finish and leave the location at 2PM. We finished filming and left the location at 1:30PM. Our final location for the shoot today was Ryde Arcadia to film the arcade scene Act 2 Scene 2. We planned to arrive at 2PM and leave at 4PM. We arrived at the location at 1:39pm and begun to film at 1:50pm. This location was a lot more quieter t...

Our first production shoot for Lost time begins today. Today we plan to film Act 2 scene 1 which is the pickup scene in the production. The pickup scene is planned to be set at the college.  We planned to arrive at the college at 10AM and leave at 2PM. We arrived at the location but the weather on the day was not good as it was raining the entire time, making it harder for us to film while not getting any equipment damaged. As a result of the weather, we were struggling to get filming done. When dialogue was needed to be recorded, the ZOOM audio recorder was not loading the SD card in time and then would no longer turn on or off. So we had to use the Camera's microphone to record dialogue. We finished the shoot at 2PM as planned although the shoot did not go as planned although we planned to use the footage we filmed as the ending instead of Act 2 Scene 1.