Organising equipment, props, location, cast and crew

Despite Bella Italia’s request that we shoot any other day but Saturday, we discovered that was the only day our two actresses and both Hannah and I could shoot due to conflicting work commitments. We agreed with the restaurant to begin shooting at 6 am and be finished by 11am. We contacted both actors confirming what time to meet and the address of the restaurant. We printed two scripts for the actors, and one each for Hannah and I, with a shooting script each for us to refer to. Hannah and I organised between us who was bringing what equipment, and we met at 5:50, doing Katy’s hair, makeup and costume outside the restaurant while waiting for the manager to open up. The same arrangement went for filming the street scenes and house scenes the following week. It seemed like such extensive work for only a team of two directors to be managing!