We had a great wee team- myself, Louie, Sean, Catriona, Roisin, Ruaridh and not forgetting Mikey and Jonathan!
So we had written the script, casted the actors (Gemma-Alex and Jamie-John), chosen our locations, located a cello- which is no easy feat I’m telling you and organised props/costumes etc.
Day one (morning) - bridge scenes, highly emotional now that we’ve added music in editing! It was rather cold, and members of the public kept asking us questions- not that we minded we thought we were ever so cool! Also a big thanks to bike man who thought we were from the BBC thinking we were making a documentary about the broken lifts on the Stirling Bridge…yeah because everyone would watch that…
Day one (afternoon)-completely zapped of energy we returned to macbob for a soul warming lunch of pizza and macrobert red jucie-yummm. Then it was down to the basement to film the piano scene, we were all shattered and in the need for a good kip. We soldiered on, and catriona became our lovely actress for that afternoon, even although we all had really sore heads resulting form the insents that we brunt to make a gentle mist across the floor of the grand piano- it failed! We got some really atmospheric shots though so all in all I guess it was worth the neurophen I had to take when I got home!
Day two (morning) - music shop, that was a rather good day! Roisin brought a bag of random percussion instruments that kept us all amused for a while and Jamie sang screamo in the glass rehearsal space. Favourite quote of the morning Jonathan- “red head to ceiling, blonde to floor”, Louie and I (blonde and ginger respectively) looked at each other and burst into fits of laughter! This scene has been turned into a montage of shots for the final film, big thanks to the guys from the music store for letting us film.
Day two (afternoon)- After our M&S lunch in the park we headed off to Ruaridh’s house to film the opening scene. We stuck countless posters to his walls and used a mountain of blue tack in the process. A good start to the film, this scene has my favourite cut in it when John is taking concert tickets off the wall- tis guid.
Day three (morning)- Shattered after the previous two days we dragged ourselves to Stirling Station to go to Glasgow for the final day filming. We were the children of Mikey and Jonathan to save money on the train fare, crafty money savers us film lot! When we got into Glasgow we met with our actor for the day- Lefty who plays sitar and snare. Everything went really well, we got all the shots that we needed and some positive remarks from the locals about how nice it is to see young folk getting involved in filming.
Day three (afternoon)- after my first ever subway lunch we got to filming random walking shots. Sean and I even got to appear as extras in the film! These shots were to establish the location and to shoot an entrance for the piano scene that was shot on day 1. We also shot the folk group ‘The Cat Skinners’ which was great, they played us a “wee jig” that really got us all in a good mood. This scene in editing has a really nice feel to it and looks great! Finally, we shot Jamie running back into the train station.
Now we’re in the editing stage, and have the picture pretty much locked. Its going really well and it turned out a little differently from how I imagined it, but I’m really pleased with the film and can’t wait for the premier later this month.
I can’t think of a better way to spend your Easter holiday than making a short film…can you?
lauren :)
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