| Our production diary - DAY THREE |
[05 Jun 2003|10:32pm] |
We begin the third day with an interview with Sofia at her place. Nothing complicate. After that , we made a break to eat some good pasta. Then we went to the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, where we met actor Michele Braonio. We wanted to make an interview with Gino at one bar on the piazza, but I visited the piazza in the week and I actually didn't know, that the bars were not open at sunday (actually, I didn't ask). So DoP Javier Moya had a good idea to loose the problem, without to get out of our style - and -more important- without to look for another location at this point. We kept still on schedule... actually with 1/2 hour delay. And we had 21 hours to finish. Michele took the tapes and drove to Felipe. Javier, Andrea (he brought his car!!!) and me went so fast as possible to Trastevere, where we shot an interview with Peter Alfano ("James").
At 4 PM we met -on schedule- another tourist group for the second guided tour in the film. We shot in "Antic Rome" monuments like the Panteon, the theatre of Marcellus and the Traian Forum. In this tour, Sofia, the character,l gets a crisis and fights with the group. The last scene between she and the tourists is hilarious.
We finished on schedule, at 8 PM. Then we needed just a shot in a bus and two "little" scenes at Jenny's place. Then I wanted to go to Felipe and to see the edition. At this point - 14 hours before finish- he told me he had already about 60 minutes edited. I was tranquilised. Actually, Felipe just edited sequence by sequence, so he didn't know how the whole film would work.
We had to wait 30 minutes for the bus.
Then, at Jenny's place, we had to fix some logistic problems, so it became about 10.30 and we didn't had to shoot this two "little scenes". So I decided to go with the tapes and led Javier and Jenny alone to make these scenes. I explained both the intention of the scene and went.
I arrived at Felipe's place at midnight and began to edit the scenes of the day in my own portable computer. Meanwhile, Felipe was fixing the already edited material.
We worked all night long. At 8.00 AM (2 hours before the deadline!), we finished. We begin with the output from the editing computer. Javier and Jenny joined us. We all saw the first for the first time, in its whole lenght. 82 minutes. We were surprised...
At 9.40 (25 minutes before deadline) we finished the record on tape. Felipe took me in his motorino to the Vatican (it was a holiday in Italy, so the post and the deliver systems were closed). Twenty minutes later (5 minutes before deadline) we sent the tape.
We did it
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| Our production diary - DAY TWO |
[04 Jun 2003|10:46pm] |
We began on time, but we had to shoot two scenes of the former day before we started the first guided tour. So we came one hour later to the planned apointment. Our first location were streets in the neighbourhood of main actress Jenny Allen and after a bar.
Then we went to Piazza Navona to meet a group of tourists. Jenny convinced two friends of her to come with us. It was a great decision, because these two women were actually like two characters that contribute a lot to the development of the story and to make stronger the conflict of the main character. There were also two women from Canada that were really making vacation and a friend of Andrea, the sound assistant. We also picked an American tourist, that accompained us a while.
The "Baroque-Rome"-tour was a great success. People just went through the streets, guided by "Sofia" (in her best mood)and we followed them with the camera. After three hours we could send editor Felipe the next full tape.
Then we shoot more exteriors with Jenny Allen and Michele Baronio ("Gino").
In the evening we wanted to shoot a scene under a bridge, but in this moment we had hard technical problems with the camera. Javier Moya and me were with Jenny under a bridge. He didn't have much tools to fix the camera, and we had no assistants. Sound assistant Andrea felt bad and had to go home and production assitant Dario had another apointments (it's a no-budget production , so we couldn't obligue nobody to work...).
We lost about four hours trying to fix the technical problemas. Then we shot the night scenes in exteriors in Trastevere. We finished at 4 AM.
At this point, Felipe had edited almost all scenes we shot. (and for the second night, he almost didn't sleep).
Then Javier went to Jenny's terrace to shoot the rising sun scene.
After that I went to bed. Three hours later I had to wake up.
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| Our production diary - DAY ONE |
[03 Jun 2003|10:37pm] |
HERE WRITES SCRIPTWRITER AND DIRECTOR MIGUEL BARREDA-DELGADO (Please excuse my broken english)
Our production diary:
On Thursday, the 29th May, DoP and technical director Javier Moya arrived from Berlin in Rome. I picked him up with the 60 kilo equipment he brought at Roma Termini. The taxi driver took 25 euros for a ride that normally would cost 10! ( No taxameter, and we forgot to ask before - too long living in Germany...)
Javier and I visited the main location of the first day of shooting: the apartment of our principal actress Jenny Allen. A small apartment in Monti (near of the colosseum) with a terrace with a wonderful view of the neighbourghood. (This was one of the reasons to shoot in Rome, because you can't make too much mistakes where ever you put the camera.)
Then Javier and I saw another few locations and checked the equipment for the next days. (We shot on miniDV with a semiprofessional 3-chip-PAL camera.)
We have 50 (fifty) scenes to shoot and edit in three days.
Friday the 30th of May:
We begin on time at 8.00 (all times CET) The crew members are: MBD (director); Javier Moya (DoP and technical director), Andrea Cataudella (sound and light assistant) and Dario (production assistant).
Thank the experience and velocity of work of Javier, I feel sure about all technical stuff. We also can (and have to) decide inmediatly how to make the scene breakdown on set, because we don't have a storyboard.
Until 10.00 we were on schedule, after this moment, because of some complications in coordinating actors performance with some technical details, we lost about 1 and a half hour. So we decided not to make exterior scenes we planned for day one.
We shoot until 23.00 (3 hours more than scheduled).
Then I went to Felipe Guerrero's home, where he were going to edit the film. (I'm not gonna mention the system we used, because we're not sponsored by them.) Felipe had to finish another job, so he wasn't free before midnight. Then he went celebrate and came back later. So, we began to digitize at 3.00 He worked until... I don't know, I went to bed at 5.00, because I had to wake up at 8.00 on Saturday
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[02 Jun 2003|11:23am] |
We did it!
Today, Monday, 2nd of June at 09:50 AM (CET) we finished our film "A day in Life". We're now too euforic and exhausted to write something more. I'm going to tell you the experiences of making this film in the next days.
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[30 May 2003|01:18am] |
So, almost everything is now ready to begin.
DoP Javier Moya arrived on Thursday morning in Rome. He and director Miguel Barreda Delgado checked all technical issues and discussed the way to complain the schedule tomorrow (today).
In a few hours, we're gonna start.
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[28 May 2003|10:34am] |
Now almost all locations are checked. Rome is a wonderful city, full of life -loud or silent- in each corner.
Today we''re going to rehearse with the principal actors and to define details about the characters, their relationship and their background.
Tomorrow Javier Moya, DoP and cameraman, arrives in Rome, so we'll check all technical details.
New crew member: Andrea Cataudella, assistant director and technical assistant.
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[24 May 2003|05:14pm] |
On Wednesday, May 21st, Miguel Barreda Delgado arrived in Rome. Now he is rehearsing with the principal actress , Jenny Allen.
Confirmed for main male role: Michele Baroni as Gino.
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[14 May 2003|02:24pm] |
Update - Crew confirmed at the moment
Cast: Jenny Allen as Sofia
DoP / Camera: Javier Moya
Editor: Felipe Guerrero
Shooting Schedule: From May, 30th to June, 2nd
Rehearsals (on location) will begin on May, 21st
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[25 Apr 2003|04:41pm] |
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At the moment, we are working on the development of the screenplay and the characters.
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[23 Apr 2003|04:25pm] |
"A day in life"
A film by Miguel Barreda-Delgado
Starring Jennyfer Allen
Editing: Felipe Guerrero
We will shoot in Rome, Italy, in the last week of May.
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