Director's Diary - Part 2: Surprises of each kind

New day, new room, new angles. We needed some time to accomodate and set everything up again.
we then kept shooting a lot of takes for the dialogue counterpart to what we did the day before, this time with our protagonist. While recording his parts and reactions we ran a take from the day before for him over the computer screen. I was surprised of how great it worked. Also, to hear those takes in context made them sound a lot better and a lot more convincing which was also a positive surprise. It was a little more relaxed than yesterday, too since we got another two days time.

Tomorrow we'll do another one or two angles for parts of the more emotional dialogue, maybe not from the tripod but a hand held with a little movement in it. What will follow are the more complicated shots with camera movement and such. But work wasn't done when we left the set. For two takes where we showed all of the lead actress parts on the computer screen in the other room we had to get a rough cut of her to show exactly those takes we wanted to see in the final film. So we had to go through the takes and compare them to find out what we wanted in there.

Then bad surprise: whilst we were editing it we suddenly discovered tiny deadbeats in the takes where the film would just jump for a split second. It was really disappointing to see. No idea were it came from. I hope we don't have these errors in all of our material, that would be really annoying. Still, there is no way to redo it so we have to live with it. Another thing that was quite unsatisfying was our own fault as beginners. Some of the additional takes of the small parts we didn't like that we had shot later yesterday where too different to implement them in between some of the other takes.

After the hard first day, I actually wanted to go to bed a little earlier today. I also had to get up one hour earlier - at 6 am. With the editing we did I arrived at home at 11pm. Well, there has to be a downside to all good things. I'll get more sleep on sunday when filming will be done. Oh, well ... the second part is usually the darkest. Let's see where things go from here and if things get resolved.