Change to filming

During the holidays we have filmed the whole of our opening 2 minutes. Though not without difficulties.
Firstly we filmed as planned using the storyboard to get the clips of Matty waking up, the flashback triggers and also the chase involving Matty, Jonny and Sam (which was filmed at 7am in the morning so we wouldn't have as many problems with passers by being in the shots). We got a few good shots though there were plenty that needed re-filming as they didn't work together when we tried to connect them.
The day before the next agreed filming time I was called by Matty telling me that he was unlikely to be able to make the filming session as he was ill and may need to go into hospital. This meant I had to plan around his absence. Our actors said they would only be able to stay upto midday, which left us an extremely short amount of time to re-film what we had previously done and make the rest. Therefore I chose to make the decision (after consulting Piyal) to make the film predominantly a chase as this was the main part we had previously filmed so hopefully the actors would pick it up quickly. I also wrote out a plan of which shots we were going to have in the order we were going to take them to make sure we were as quick as possible to fit into our time frame.
The next morning one of our actors didn't arrive, meaning I had to step into the role of one of the chasers and give Piyal the job of being cameraman. Though before each shot I positioned the camera using the plan I had made the night before.

I am very happy with the clips we have come out with. I feel that re-filming the chase scenes helped us develop the clips we made before.