Directions - Shooting 'CMIYC'

Yesterday I finished shooting my adaption of 'Catch Me If You Can'. The shoot for this project went pretty well, although we ended up struggling a bit time-wise both days mainly due to actors being delayed and miscalculating how long it would take to rig between the shots since we used a lot of lights.

On the first day we were filming at Penguins and Medway Council, starting at Penguins. For this scene I had arranged to meet the actors on set, but because of "heavy" snow the main actor got stuck in traffic and was delayed by 1 and a half hour. We managed to shoot the scene quite quick and ended up being only 30 min behind schedule when moving to the next location.
When we got there both the actors for this scene had already arrived and was waiting. Filming this scene didn't go as quick as I had planned since I had to work more with the actors on this one than what I had thought when writing the schedule for the shoot. In the end we managed to get all the shots that I wanted, but we stayed being 30 min behind schedule.

On the second day we were shooting at the B&B. This was going to be a stressful day as we had a lot to film, and it didn't get less stressful when I got told by the owner that we had 30 minutes less to film than planned due to the room we were using being rented out later that day.  Even so we managed to film the whole scene but had to cut some of the extra shots that I wanted because of the time.

Overall the production went very well. I didn't have any issues neither with actors or locations dropping out. I'm also happy ith the planning I did beforehand as I had location recce's on all the locations 1 week before shooting to see where I'd need lighting and what type of lights I should book out, and to see how much props was needed on each set.

For this project, I ended up using both the Arri lights and 2 LED's and shot it on a DSLR (5D mark III, lenses: 25mm, 50mm, 25-70mm and 70-200mm). It was nice to shoot it on a DSLR as it gave the option of swapping lenses.
Since we were using a DSLR we had to record the audio separately using the DR70 sound kit and marked all the shots with a clapper. We also used a Røde mic that we plugged into the camera just as a backup in case the DR70 would fail.

As mentioned, the only big issue we had was time, which I couldn't really do much about, but other than that everything went really well. The actors were lovely to work with and the crew did an amazing job. There were also no problems using the prop gun. I called the police as soon as we were done filming and they said they didn't receive any calls from the public while we were filming.

Before and after photo of the "police office":