Day 1 of Filming

Before I even got there our actors had been working hard, recording the dialogue that was going to be the voice over for the church shots. When I arrived it was time to move onto set and begin filming. They were filming inside a big church which had been half converted into an exhibition space. The building was beautiful inside out. It still had some very traditional looking bits as well. One particular place in the church caught my attention. The hall was big and very empty, except from a patch near the side that had a small rug, on it was a chair and a table. It fascinated me as it was the only bit of furniture in the building, and it stood alone.
The crew got to work lining up the shots, setting up the camera. They filmed Patricia (who plays our main character) walking around the church. some of the shots they filmed were going to have voice over. They also wanted to get a few shots of her walking where they could hear her feet moving around. They filmed her walk across the vast space. Patricia was very professional considering how much experience she'd had. For the scenes where they wanted to hear her feet moving, everyone had to keep deadly silent. Of course as you do with filming we had a few interruptions. Unfortunately outside there was a lot of building work going on, so we picked up every noise via the boom. I also managed to take my picture at just the wrong time meaning the flash affected the shot and Maria had to shout cut. oops. All part of the process eh?
After filming inside the church we took a quick lunch break. Actors and crew get very hungry when they've been working hard.
I then went on to dress set the kitchen in Urmston. We set up the kitchen in the community centre to look like a kitchen in a home. It's now set up and ready for filming there tomorrow.

Aimee Sutton