Shooting in enclosed or smaller spaces
For some of the shots, especially the closet shots it may be difficult to do and we may have to think of another way of how to shoot it, depending on what we decide when it comes to actually filming it. The problem will probably come because of the size of the camera we are using as well as any sound or lighting equipment we may need. As neither of us have really had any experience in dealing with a problem like this before this may be one of the hardest to deal with and pull off.
Finding a younger actor
As we wanted our film to look potentially very good we wanted to find a child that would have at least a little experience with acting. And although it would have been easier to find someone related to us that option was not possible. So we have two options; one is using a boy from my dance school who does musical theatre, I have seen first hand that even when he was younger he was very capable of behaving well and acting to a good standard and now that he is older he is even easier to talk to. Our other option is by instead of using a boy would be to use a girl for the main part of the film. The actress that will be playing 'the sister' has a younger sister which gives the advantage that they look very alike. Also the good thing with this is that she is slightly older but looks young so it will be easier to work with and talk to her.
Locations
Our film has three major locations, a school, a house and a street. The street part will be easy enough as long as it fits in with the whole look of the film for example if the house was quite big and nice but the street looked very dirty and grimy. The school will be okay if we can get permission to film outside it and to record the sound of one class. The problem with this would be trying to recreate a classroom, it would have to look believable and not as though we had just stuck a few drawings on a wall somewhere. The hardest part for this was to find a house that would have all the appendages that we would need. At first we were going to use my grandparents house which had all the necessary parts but the downside was that it was in Sheffield. For us to get all the equipment and every actor and helper to this site would have been extremely difficult, also because it is not the largest house for moving around and setting up lighting it would have been quite hard to get the effect that we need. Luckily my friend Beth has agreed that we can use her house which is quite big and has all the things that we need. Although it does not have a closet to hide in per say it has a very small bedroom that with a few props can be made to look how we would envision it.
Getting everyone to be free at the same time and in the same place
As both me and Benj have college almost five days a week as well as work it is very hard finding a suitable length of time where we will both be able to film with enough time to get the work done. When you add other people into the mix this just gets more and more difficult, as we have three actors there are times where not all of them are in the same scene together. This will make it slightly easier to schedule. Everything also has to be scheduled with Beth and when someone is in at their house, so that we do not trash it.
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