Not long after the theatre shoot was the shoot for the narrative. The day began with a minor setback - a mix up in meeting points caused me to lose about 45 minutes, which would have been my hair and make-up time slot. As well as losing out on time which we already didn't have much of, it added on a lot of stress to me.
I had to style my actress' hair in a music practise room in the college, which opened the door to several disturbances, as it wasn't a private room. The fact that it wasn't the best environment to do vintage styling added in with how behind schedule we were made me quite nervous, especially as I wasn't meeting my assistant director until we got to Central London.
We used the college TV studio to hurriedly shoot the 'backstage' scenes, as the college theatre doesn't have an actual backstage. We then went to the tube station, however it began to rain very lightly as soon as we got there. Luckily, the rain stopped by the time we got to Portobello Road, where my assistant director was waiting for us. While we were on our way, as we were late, he managed to find the perfect record store for us to shoot outside for the vinyl shot, slightly catching us up to be back on schedule.
We stuck rigidly to the order that I made (as seen in the 'Call Sheets' blog entry), commencing in Portobello Road, before getting the tube to Ed's Diner in Soho. Shooting in Portobello Road had quite a glamorous feel - it is quite a tourist hotspot, so people were watching and taking photos of us.
When we got to Ed's Diner, we encountered two major problems. The first one was that the restaurant manager told us that we could use the outside area, but we weren't allowed to film my actress walking out of the restaurant - we overcame this by using the take we took just before he told us that.
The second major problem was that it began to rain as we were finishing the shot. We decided to wait under some shelter for a short while to see if the rain would stop, yet it only got heavier, despite the dry weather forecast. I desperately needed the shots of my actress dancing to the busker with Big Ben striking 6pm in the background, but unfortunately, due to me, my actress and my assistant director all working at our jobs on different evenings that week, this particular day was my only chance to grab that shot. The miserable weather had a detrimental effect on our spirits as we had to trundle through torrential rain while preserving my actress' styling in order to grab this key shot. I had to compromise the busker being outside Big Ben, as there was no time or dry/light skies, and I decided that I would just have to edit the busker to make it look like he was outside Big Ben when in reality, he wasn't.
Sadly, when it started raining I had less than half the shots that I had planned to take that day, so I had no choice but to arrange a reshoot.
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