We have now finished filming all the fundamental scenes of 'BURN' and the editing process is soon to start. The filming of this music video has not been without its trails and tribulations. I shall list and explain all the major issues.
1) Actors - My actors weren't professional, nor did thy have any form of acting experience. This made them were difficult to work with, merely because everything had to explained in much greater detail, and they easily became disinterested in working if they weren't occupied on set. Which is going to be inevitable on any set.
Due to their lack of passion in the project they became very unreliable. On a number of occasions they cancelled last minute, simply because they couldn't be bothered to act. This caused me a great deal of stress and anxiety as something like that, especially on an already tight time budget, really throws the whole production in chaos.
I've learnt from this though, and I won't be using person with no drive for acting for any of my productions again. It really isn't worth it. Not only is scheduling a headache, but the acting will more than likely be very poor.
2) Locations - I had a location set to film at, in the woods at Great Elm, Frome. But because of sudden scheduling chaos, we wouldn't have another chance to film in those woods again, till after the deadline. So I was frantically trying to find another suitable abandoned shed in the middle of the woods, and then we stumbled on the most perfect location ever, completely by fluke! It had everything we needed for the scene, and it was actually more ideal than our original location!
So I've learnt to not give up hope when one location falls through, there's always going to be another suitable place to use, even if you need to tweak your script a little.
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