I gave up writing for a while because I was so disillusioned with the way things were going. My friend and ally in the group and I had a bit of a spat so communication there was getting difficult too which was a pain for me because without her I was just in some really crap group.

We had the meeting up with the tutor who gave us pretty okay feedback but I really think he was being a bit generous. I had a long list of grievances that I was going to bring up but it suddenly felt like a bad time to do it. So I felt like it was time to just give up and back out slowly. But the group wouldn't let me.

So we discussed some script revisions and how to further proceed then went our separate ways. For quite a while. I drew up a storyboard even though it seemed a bit pointless because I knew what would happen with it.

We booked the equipment and the actors time one weekend. A Friday and a Sunday. We got to the Parnell Gardens to do the scene that is there and I discovered that the intention was that the actors sat at a park bench. My storyboard had them walking. Turns out Jackie and Ros both thought it was walking too. Yeah...

So we made up shots on the spot. It was getting darker and the light was changing. We got it all and left. Didn't get a copy of the footage.

Sunday was planned from the whole day early in the morning. Daniel called in sick. WTF. We decided to continue and do the shots without him. The park scene was changed on the spot because apparently our director had always visioned the thing from a different angle. Once again it rendered the whole storyboard useless. We seemed to waste a lot of time but it wasn't so bad at this point. Rebecca, who was unimpressed with Daniel not turning up - but not surprised it turned out - said her boyfriend who is an actor could fill in if needed.

We then went to Joyce's house to film interior scenes. I'd lost control of all camera once again and was boom operator. Oh, this was a theme. Yup, cinematographer holds a boom while Director controls everything. Producer letting shit happen because she just feels like Director is controlling the show, and I'm trying to get her involved because she did want to do something of value too (she is operating the sound recorder and Ros is doing the clapper board).

The whole thing devolved though with ALOT of stuffing around.

I got the footage finally today and looked at it. None of it cuts together. Shots are badly framed. Too much depth of field.

On our facebook page she had said how she thinks in our next meeting we should plan shots more so we know what we are doing. Hmmm... Why didn't anyone else think of that?...

This is a really short version of all the events of the past 3 weeks. But you get the idea.