Production: Filming of The Girl That's Doesn't Speak

How Day 1, 2 and 3 went: challenges faced prior to filming such as finding cast and crew, times of filming 10-5pm, behind the scenes problems like cast/crew management, overall opinion on outcome of filming, what would be changed if was able to do again, what did i learn and would the second film result in the same style.

Filming dates: 15th April-16th April

The Cast:

Dad- played by Mushi Noor

Daughter - played by Jas Chattha

Sister - Sobia Jones

The Crew:

I was the sound, camera and lighting person for this project. I asked on Facebook groups and friends for assistance but during the Easter period, many were busy so I filmed the project on both days.

Day 1

The location for the whole shoot was at my flat in Headingley. I was not able to find a film crew to help on the shoot days, but the actors helped out during filming as much as they could.

I planned all the scenes that needed food because this made is easier when they were needed for props. I did three shots for each scene to give variation for editing but I did try to stick with my shot list. The first day I used the animation LEDgo lights but when I was watching the footage back, the lights were not strong enough to use and I decided to go and book out redhead lights instead for tomorrow's shoot.

Day 2

After watching some of the footage from Day 1, I decided to re-shoot the scenes from Day 1 today but after shooting the scenes that needed to be done for Day 2, I still had time to re-do the scenes from yesterday so there was no need to film on Friday 17th like I had planned.
On this day I had the actress who was playing the Aunt, as this was the only full day for availability. On the day we decided that since the woman playing the Aunt was much younger in appearance than I thought and the previous actress I had contacted couldn't make it, I changed the character from an aunt to a older sister which worked out well I feel.


Overall, I thought filming alone would be much worse and it did make it hard for me because I felt I was not skilled enough to use a camera but I re-shot the scenes I was not happy with and I think they came out better as the redheads were a lot more powerful to light the scene. I know the footage could have been shot better but it was the best I could do with the time frame given and the circumstances.