Trick of the Dark- Shoot 2

When a filming day starts off with an actor telling you he can't shoot because he has to got to A&E, it doesn't particularly set you off to a good start, however, there are two reactions, find a solution or cancel the shoot, I chose the former. My solution to not being able to shoot a three person scene because one of my actors was in hospital? Easy, just shoot two of them instead. The plan for the day was to shoot close-ups in the studio to mimic the look of the cave interior so that we could minimize the amount that needed shooting in the real cave. So my intent from the beginning was to shoot each character on a mid and close-up so the obvious solution was to simply shoot one less character. It is worth saying at this point that there weren't any production stills taken by me so this will be a fairly short post as I have no images to talk about. So I will say this for starters, the actors where fantastic, I was a little worried because I had worked with neither of them before and hadn't seen a great deal of their work. However any worry I had quickly left me as I saw that these were genuinely great on screen together, this is definitely attributed to their real life friendship and the fact that they do theater together often. This made everything run much smoother as they instantly had an a chemistry that will definitely be beneficial for the film. It would have been nice for Gary to have been there to see how he fits into that equation given that he doesn't have previous with them, this fact could play out quite nicely on screen as he may feel excluded from the three which will definitely be better for him in terms of living the character. Logistically, the filming itself was done with two cameras, I had one on a tripod which me and Liam set up and framed and then there was another camera that Liam was using handheld to shoot the other character, this meant that the shoot itself went quickly and efficiently once we had everything set up, I wills say that the shoot took a lot longer than it should have but that is because it took us a while to get sound equipment up and running as we were using radio mics which was very beneficial because they captured some great sound, however, they did take a while for us to work out. In terms of content,k we shot the close-ups and mids for 3 scenes this coupled with our first shoot we have a third of the film at best, unfortunately we didn't have Gary which limited what we could get, but this was definitely progress we can build upon.