This weekend has been rather great. The plan was always to film my trailer for my media studies, this involved my first chance at directing something.. I'm not gonna lie - it was different to what I was expecting, this doesn't mean bad though. Yes, I stayed up until 3am the night before planning this and getting people involved from acting to camera shooting. I realized that it took a lot more preparation to get it how I wanted it to look like. The weird part of this, is that I imagined just turning up with gear and a couple of people and film the dodgy idea I had in my head.
Anyway, I enjoyed doing a short bit of acting in it and telling people my ideas and getting it down on camera. I'm lucky I'm good friends with people that are keen actors, especially Hannah Walker. Because it was only short, I'm not going to praise how we all pulled together to create this masterpiece because it isn't a masterpiece, far from it but I will say that I was proper happy with how we had fun but when I said that I wanted to get this scene down - people pulled themselves together and got the shot down.
It was slightly different to how it was initially gonna go because I had a different person to play the male in the video which I think on that day, I had a stroke of luck because originally I had Hannah's boyfriend Eugene playing the role, but because he decided he couldn't do it - Lewis who was filming it, brought along Alex Gocher and straight away, swooped him into playing the role and to be fair, he's far from into acting, pulled off the part well.
The down side to all of this is that it was revealed to me that we can't actually use a music video for my coursework which has thrown me into a complete rut because I now have to use my original idea by filming my first episode of Offscene and using clips of that but that takes a lot more thinking to; getting people free, having the equipment, having the scene etc etc, the list goes on.
But apart from that, I like to think that I've had my introduction to directing and worked with some cool people to get this filmed (even though I don't need it now).. It always helps when you have people who enjoy acting and I've got people like that who are available to me which makes it more exciting for when we film the first episode and possibly the second episode of 'Offscene'
In general, I'm really excited about filming this and I know the rest of the 'cast' are really nagging me to finish the first episode so we can get filming it. For people who are actually interested in this, with a few more tweeks made to the script, we will be definatly be shooting the first episode over the Easter.
Hope you've had a good weekend
x
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