Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the lights is the third and final short film in our Urban Legends short film collection, and the second shoot I was on due to my absence on The Hook Man. AYGYDTOTL was filmed Wednesday 13th April at Student Accommodation in Lime Crescent, with Dan Whalen, Gary Davidson and Jack Hammersley acting in it. Set dressing and equipment transportation took place early on in the day around 10 am and the rest of the morning was used to make sure everyone was ready and to go over any last minute issues any one may have. The cast and crew was to meet at the uni at 12:30 and then to head over to the location for shooting to start at 1:15-1:30pm. Due to the script taking place at night, we had to black out the windows and act like we were filming at night, a lot of the shots take place inside a flat so its easy to disguise it as night and was more practical to get all these shots during the day and then get any shots that need to be done outside, on the night once we finished the inside shots.
I acted as driver, runner and due to John's brother not been able to make it, I took over as BTS camera man to capture the film been shot and the whole cast and crew behind the scenes. The location been someones flat, was quite small for the whole crew and equipment to fit in which was a little challenging but we made it work pretty quick. A lot of the early shots were just between Gary and Dan and were dialogue heavy, it was good to get these out of the way first so we could move on to any more complicated shots later. A poster for the fake radio show Tales From The Other Side was produced for this short and we created and used some fake blood to write on the poster the final scene of the short Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn On The Lights. We took our time and made sure we covered quite a lot of coverage with our shots and the plan was once we finished with the inside shots, hopefully it would be dark and we could continue on and get the night shots, but the sun was still up once we finished filming inside and we decided to take the cast and crew out for something to eat while we waited for the sun to go down.
We got to the end of our meals and the sun was only just starting to go down, so we made our way back to the location and began setting up and waiting for it to get darker. I also drove on camera for a few shots of picking Gary's character up and dropping him off again later. There wasn't too many night shots to film and we were doing good on time, so we made sure we covered everything and got a few extra shots here and there that might come in useful. With this been the third shoot in our series, the crew had become more comfortable with each other and knew exactly what to expect of each other and it was good and felt nice to work consistently with the same crew instead of it changing every now and then. I think we've all definitely got better at our job roles thanks to this production and it's helped us improve many areas that we may have not considered doing before, so it's had a positive effect on us as crew members and filmmakers. All the footage we've captured seems to be to a quality standard and good enough to be used in the edit, it's been real fun working on this production with this crew and will be really interesting to see the final edits to see if our work paid off as much as we feel it did on set.
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