Unit 2, Part B

14 January 2015

Whilst I was writing our script, I had to make sure that what I was writing was practical to shoot in less than a day. One sequence we had in the original script was a montage; it took place in many locations and had the actors wearing multiple costumes. However, with guidance from our mentors, we were told that shooting something like this in a day would be impractical if we also wanted time to shoot the other scenes. We resolved this particular problem by removing the montage, and changing the relationship of Lewis and Caitlyn to take place over a day rather than months or years. 

Once I had written our script, we had to think about getting props, what type of costumes we wanted the characters to wear, and gaining access to locations. I personally made some notes regarding this process, and had a hand in asking permission to use the Sheffield Central Library to shoot some scenes in at the beginning. 

Since we were shooting in a library, we also had to think about when we were shooting close ups of books, that we weren't causing any copyright problems by mentioning real book names and authors. To resolve this problem we opted to create a few fake books, to put on a shelf, when we were taking close ups. I volunteered to figure out how we were going to make these fake books. 

What I ended up doing was photoshopping some of my own photos and using our names and, with permission, some of my other friends' names as authors. Then, I printed off the "spines" of these fake books, folded the paper to make it seem like they were covering books, and taped them all to together in the back. Lastly, I attached them to a metal frame that I twisted out of wire. Here's what it looked like in the end: