First day of filming

The first day of filming I thought was amazing yet tiring. Our first location was at St.Peters Church in Ancoats which was beutiful, inside was amazing, and there was this one little spot that had three stain glass windows over it and from there the sun just beamed through projecting a little yellow light on the floor, which got used to its full advantage during filiming. We didn't really have to do alot of shots inside the building because it was quiet enough to run through without any distractions because for the bit that they were filming the only sound they wanted was a voice over of our main character as she walks out around this gigantic space that she was in, I presume also they wanted to hear her footsteps walking across the room because the boom was held near her feet sometimes just to get that right sound, after everything was done within the church we decided to have a dinner break, I was able to a little sun tan before I got to hot and had to move in the shade.

After dinner some people went to go and set dress a kitchen in Urmston for tomorrows filming, where as me and 7 people including the two actresses (which were fantastic may I add) stayed behind to film some more, outside of the church this time there was dialouge going on so they needed utter silence, but that didn't really happen that much because of the builders that were working right next to us, also we had to stop because an airplane flew over just as ACTION was shouted, but in the end we got the dialogue and action that we needed for this shot before we went on a walk around the church to do some more takes. This was the hardest to film because there were cobbles on the roads and as cars drove over them they made the loudest noise possible, so everytime a car went passed we had to stop then start again, I ended up being the person making sure that no cars drove past and ran everyone over when they were filming on the road I was so scared because I didn't think the cars would stop, but they did and waited patiently. As we walked around, we found a small hole that looked like a port hole in one of the walls of the buildings that were closed up and when you looked inside it you could see miniature sowing machines moving ever so slightly, it definatly had the WOW! factor this ended up being used because it was just so cute.

At the end of the day, it turned out to be a very succesful day, with alot of good shots to be put into the film.