As we did before we arrived at Wood Hill nursing home at 9:30
am, when we had got they we where surprised to see that Jonathan had already
arrived, this wasn’t an issue as it meant I could brief the crew and Jonathan
together saving us a little bit of time.
We had a lot less to film, which meant we could spend a
little bit more time on certain shots and re film the point of view shots from
yesterday which didn’t turn out too great. The first shot we filmed was at the started,
where we see Jonathan getting out of bed and walking over to the curtains. This
shot was a little difficult due to the lighting outside as it kept on changing
meaning when he opened the curtains the footage was over or under exposed. We
spent a little longer on this shot then I expected but it was worth it in the
end as the shoot look really nice.
We swift moved on t the next shot filmed inside the
cupboard, as Jonathan reached in to grab his shirt. This had to be one of my
favourite shots we filmed, the composition is great and it foreshadows what’s
going to happen later on in the film. Everything was running smoothly and we
decided to take a break before we filmed the most crucial part of the film, the
panic attack. I not going to lie I was a little nervous about this as it was
the most important scene in the film, and I wasn’t quite sure what to say to Jonathan
as I knew he used to suffer from them. 
Before we started filming I quickly briefed Jonathan and
told him where abouts to stand and to look. We filmed a shot before where Jonathan
looks straight through the camera, I wanted the composition to be the same as
this shot. As it was quite a sensitive scene we thought it would be best if we
had as little of us in the room as possible, so Louis Adam and Sarah went into
another room. Jonathan asked if he could have a little bit of time to get into
character but just to start recording. It was a little uncomfortable to watch
him act this scene as he start to cry and I didn’t know when to call cut, the
footage look really really good Jonathan acting was brilliant you could really
see the emotion and pain on his face. After this scene we had another break and
talked about how we where going to film the point of view shots as we all
agreed that they didn’t work.
I didn’t want to give up on the point of view shot as it was
really important and a crucial part of the scrip. We had already got rid of two
point of shots and replaced then with cut always. We had a similar set up as
the day before. Although the footage looked better then yesterday it still
didn’t look the way I wanted it to. We talked about filming the shot from
outside looking through the window but what made our film unique was that it
was all shot inside the same room. We
tried the shot one more time, although not perfect it still better then the
other attempts.
Overall I think filming went very well, Jonathan was great
he was really cooperative, patient and played the role very well. I think as a
team we work well together and the footage looks really good.
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