I took these (I'm not even a professional photographer)
By the time we got filming, queen street started to fill with curious pedestrians and the occasional car. So my first piece of advice would be don't film on a busy street. The second being, if you do, make sure you start early enough to avoid a high stream of traffic.
Baylea on busy location
Third piece of advice: make sure your actors know their lines. Though we had a lot of fun with our actors, there was a lot of wasted time and shots due to our actors forgetting lines. The problem for our film; Matt only got his script on the Friday and Joe is not a trained actor. Because of this I think they did really well.
The Cast - Joe and Matt
One of the things I struggled with over the weekend (as I mentioned in my last post) was shooting roles. Because my two main roles for the film was casting, all done before shooting, and music, all done after shooting, I found it difficult to place myself. My main jobs over the weekend were: looking after bags, carrying equipment, documenting events with Megan's camera and motivating the actors. This said on the Saturday I did spend quite a bit of the time in front of the camera, which kept me going and made me feel a bit more needed. I think to an extent Colin felt similarly; the role of producer is also weighted heavily towards pre-production.
Colin looking after bags
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