The Day of the Shoot

Overall the shoot went very well. We started at 9 and took 7 hours, resulting in about half an hour of footage, which will be edited to end up as 3-4 minutes.
We went in to the studio to find our set built. It consisted of 2 rooms, as we planned. One with a window boarded up, with light coming through onto a bed Tamara had bought and we had attempted to wreck with a hammer the day before giving it a worn feel. The other a dark room, with no windows, and no light. On the walls was some paint smeared and it looked really unrealistic and rushed, so with the time we had I mixed some red and a small amount of brown and black paint, and JJ and I began to flick paint over the walls to look like blood spatters. We ended up covering all 3 walls. My mum and sister were coming in to do the make up, but were held up a little bit causing a delay. When they arrived at 9:30 they went straight on the make up. Rory was one of the first to get his make up, making him look like he was drugged and bruised. This gave us time to take several shots of him doing his actions in the first room while the others' make up was still being finished. Tamara made sure the other actors were where they needed to be, those who needed it were getting their make up, and also made sure they were all blue carded.
While waiting for the other actors, we recorded sounds of objects hitting the floor for when the table is knocked over, like nails, metal poles, a glass and a torch, using the boom mic, and Tom considered shots and put Rory in different areas of the room and looked at them on camera.
It took about 2 hours for the make up to be done, so we were behind schedule as we had only recorded a few minutes of footage and 3 hours had passed since the beginning of the shoot. The actors playing the bodies came down and they were arranged against the wall to look like they were piled up. Duct tape was put over the victims mouths. in the hour we had before the lunch break, we worked quickly to get all the shots of the torch light going around the room and the discovery of the bodies, and where Rory pulls the tape off one of the victims and it wakes up. we had to work quickly as some of the victims would not be available after 1:00pm.
When everyone returned at 2:00, we took a few final shots of the victims, of their faces and of them waking up. we were then able to dismiss the victims and continued to take more shots of Rory. We filmed him falling through the door using the tracks, following his movement from one room into the other. We also took one of the first shots in the scene, an aerial view of him lying on the bed before waking up which JJ took from the lifting machine. We also recorded some more sounds like the shuffling of feet on the floor.
Finally at the end of the shoot which went a little passed 3pm, we had recorded over 30 mins of footage. Te day went well and despite certain hold ups, the group worked efficiently and we got everything we needed finished. Tom worked as a great director, but was a little too enthusiastic towards the end of the day. Other issues included JJ having to try the tracking shot several times before getting the timing right, but this was a minor issue and didnt take too long to overcome, and JJ was very good the rest of the time.