Day 2 of Filming - Travelodge

On the 4th December, the production team went the Travelodge, Stafford Central to film the majority of the scenes from the film. These scenes only had Carter in but there were logistical problems with the amount of people who could be on set at any time.

If The Call was to be shot again, there would have been a limit on the amount of people were in the room at any point as this caused issues with shadows within the shots and things being left in shot. It would have also been noticed that the mirror played a huge part in the film as this pointed out flaws in the shots which weren't noticed on set but in the editing suite.

Here is a still from a scene shot in the room in which the audience can see in the bottom of the mirror there is a single hot lighting glove on top of the laptop and the top of Chenice's head is cropping into shot. If there were more time at this location these errors would have been resolved but the team were running to restraints as they had only booked one night of using the hotel room and the actor wasn't free all of the evening. This meant that this location got rushed more than the other two. Although there was a more positive feeling on set for the scenes on this day as the lighting was the brightest in this room then before.

Kathryn also learnt from this set that sometimes too much light is bad too as the lighting became very burnt and detail was lost on the faces of the characters. so if this was shot again she would have brought the iris down more. The team would have also used less lighting and more diffusion as a lot of the lighting was very harsh on the main character.

Overall the shoot was a success and lasted approximately 4 hours, if the team were to do it again they would have done a lighting test beforehand to ensure there wasn't any problems.