Day Two of filming

On the second day of filming we planned to get the shots from the forest and on the viewpoint. We were able to meet later in the day than we had when we had previously as were filming locally.

First of all we went  to the woods beside school to film the scenes of Alexia and Arby together. The only challenges for these scenes was wanting our characters to be without their coats and it was a pretty cold day so we wanted to get the shots done as quickly as possible. The cold weather made it hard to retake certain shots such as Alexia running past the forest as Mia would run towards me and I would quickly cover her with her coat to avoid her getting too cold.

The second location we went to was the viewpoint to film the discussion between Alexia and Kaya, we had originally thought that we would film this meeting on the swings in the local park. But there were loads of children running around this location so we decided to think back to our location planning for an alternative location. We then went to a viewpoint near us, overall I think that this turned out to be a better location that what we had originally planned because the lighting was a lot better and we avoided the backdrop of the shot looking chaotic and messy.

The second day of filming was a lot easier to plan and carry out than the first day of filming due to deciding to use nearby locations and not travel too far, because all of the actor were rehearsing already for a performance, we all met afterwards ensuring that everyone was free and no one needed to leave due to other commitments. The only problem that we did have was that it was really cold and we didn't want to take too long filming as our actors were starting to get cold, it was a fun day as all of us are friends so we managed to look on the positives of the situations and have fun, although at some points it was hard to maintain quiet on set because of people giggling, but I managed to get everyone to concentrate when we needed silence.

- Sam