Filming Schedule - Miss Georgiou

Filming schedules are used to keep everything organised and clear for those involved in filming. A filming schedule usually involves;

• Type of shot - Number 1, 2, 3 etc
• Date & Time - Used so everyone knows when this shot is being filmed. 
• Content/Action - Used to briefly describe what happens in this shot, to remind the director of photography and all those involved in filming what needs to be filmed.
• Shot type & Duration - whether this is a high angle or tracking shot etc. It is used so everyone knows what shot the schedule is talking about. The duration is to remind everyone how long this shot should take to film. 
• Costume, Hair & Make-up - To remind everyone what the actors should look like, to make sure they get everything appropriate and correct. 
• Iconography - To remind those involved what iconography is used in that particular shot. 
• Personal - Who needs to be present at filming, e.g - actress, director etc. 
• Equipment - To remind everyone involved what they need for this shot, so they don't forget to bring it. 

We created our own filming schedule to ensure that we were organised. This helped me and my group to gather all of our ideas onto a single page, which we could follow when filming. We hope that as it is detailed, it will help us to be organised on the day of filming, reminding us what we need to bring and what each shot should involve etc. It should help the filming of our thriller opening easier, as it will help things run smoothly and quickly.

Having completed the filming, we had to change some of our plans from our filming schedule. For example, when looking at the schedule we noticed we had planned to film the dragging of the body out of the water, which would be a flashback, into the normality scenes involving the rose. This didn't work as it would mean getting the girls hair wet for the first bit, and then it would need to be dry when filming the rose scenes. To solve this, we simply left the dragging of the body scene until the very end of the day. Other than this, we followed the filming schedule well, and filmed a few of the shots a couple of times from different angles, so we could choose the best ones during the editing stage.