First Edit and Phone Call

In the edit Danny transferred all the footage on to the computer and labeled everything. He then put together an assembly and we discussed how we wanted to hone the footage and what issues we had. 

For the most part we went off the storyboarding and script to get what we wanted and then came to fine cutting the bits with which we had issues. 

The main problem we faced was the idea of getting the main character from place to place in a believable way. For instance he would be scrubbing his shirt on one side of the room and the we would have an issue with getting him to the other side of the room while keeping the pace up. For this we had written in that there would be cut away shots of the female character walking to the date.

The focus now was with getting a rough edit together so that we could assess what else and how much still needed to be shot. Danny quickly had an edit for us and we knew that we needed cut away shots of the female character walking and an establishing shot of the venue itself.

While this was going on Joe and I met with the two actresses so that he could record the phone call sound and I could oversee the performance of this. Again, luckily, our lead actress Laura brought a good friend from her course who also is an actress and we let them learn the lines and they had done some really good readings within the first two or three takes.

At this point we also organised to meet Laura to meet Laura later that day outside the Lyceum Theatre so that we could shoot the walking cut away section.