Episode 2 filming

Yesterday I filmed the second episode of Lines. This episode was more complicated, because we bought in some extras and not all the scenes were shot in the classroom. To make it more realistic than last time, while Sam, Elliott, James and I went to film one of the flashbacks, Matt stayed in the room with the rest of the cast for a rehearsal. I went to film the flashback, which went ok, then came back to the room to start filming.

It was pretty annoying at the start, because Dave kept making us take a shot, move to the other end of the room, do another shot then repeat exactly the same ones over and over again. I don't know why he made us do this, but we finally finished that and started filming something different it got more interesting. I felt Dave was alright as a director, but got distracted quite easily and we kept having to tell him to stay on track. However we managed to get all the footage filmed, most of it at least twice, so we have extra footage, which was a problem last time.

I think the actors were better this time round, they seemed to be a lot more in character and knew their lines, despite us changing small bits of the script at the last minute. We still have to film one of the flashbacks, because we ran out of time, but i think we did very well for the time we had. I think having costumes for the characters was a really good idea, especially changing them. I bought in the costume for the secret agent, but with 2 different types of glasses. I bought in some proper old school sunglasses, and i also bought some of the 3-D glasses from the cinema. We decided to go with the 3-D glasses, because it looked realistic, but at the same time if you noticed, it was just funnier. Also, if you notice that they are 3-D glasses, it makes you think that it is just some kid pretending to be a spy, which makes the fact the Seth is so paranoid about it even funnier, because he isn't even a real spy.