Account of Shooting day

Our Shooting day began at 9:00 am and we met our actors and our teachers in the Studio of Hurtwood House. Berika was playing the man and Alabama Jackson, who we got in the end, played our little girl. When they arrived Amy and Storm took Alabama and got her a white dress and put white make up in her face to make her look as if she had been in the room for at least one day. Tom and me started design the room further - we put mud and linen on the floor, candles on the table as well as all the tools we wanted to use. Storm took some of the bed linen and stitched the mask we wanted to use. While Tom continued designing the room further and checking with the lighting-Tom how it is going to be like, i took Berika and showed him what he had to do and did a little practise. Then we started our shoot. Everything went very well the only difficulty we had were the candles because they burned down a lot so we had to be careful that in the end it still looked as if it was shot in 2 minutes. I took notes and wrote down which shots we already did and which were left as well as checking on the display if the camera positions looked good. Amy helped me and also did the light, while Tom was doing the camera and Storm directed. But Storm, Amy and me basically did everything together and i think it worked very well. However when we almost shot everything in the studio a horrible mistake happened. Before we had taken a piece of wood where we put nails in and then sticked candles on it. When we were almost done we took the candles out but the wood with the nails remained. We put the lights back on and started to tidy up a little when suddenly our actress jumped around and into the nails with her feet. Luckily Ben Hurley came around and carried her into the "hospital-station" and Alabama got better quickly after. We continued our shoot under the trap door in hurtwood house which worked extremely well because the location was very effective. Even though by then it was already 5 o'clock, we still wanted to have our shot of Leithhill and so Fiona took us and the equipment in a bus and we went to shoot two shots there. We got into the house and got the energy-supply for our lights and then we shot Berika walking towards the house and made it look as if he was entering. At 6 o'clock our shooting day ended.
I personally liked it because on the day of shoot we still changed some ideas and got better ones and i think it had been a good and effective shooting day.