What was done...and not

So, finally a report on this past week.
A small disaster. Flora became ill and we had to cancel the first three days of the planned shoot. As she is in every scene there was not a lot we could do without her.
When she recovered we managed to juggle a few things and shot approximately 2 1/2 days. We covered all the scenes which include the character of Sophie.
Most of this involved shooting in my flat, which stood in for Paul and Claire's flat. As days are getting shorter and with some delays that meant JC was doing a small amount of lighting here, something we try to avoid.
Besides the flat we also had a few locations to cover as well.
Towards the end of the second segment Claire and her friend Sophie visit a gallery as part of Sophie's birthday. Here David did double duty. He was there to take photographs of the production, but the character's also came to see his own photographs. I didn't want to have the characters go to a gallery and just see whatever happened to be on display there. We found a place where we could do a little hanging and painting and put up something that would add another layer of meaning.
David did a project a number of years ago titled Nationale 7 - Le route bleue. Nationale 7 or Highway 7 used to be the main highway from Paris to the south. In August millions of Parisians would embark on road to begin their holidays, but now the road has been bypassed. Now the culture along the highway is crumbling. What I became interested in these photographs was the sense of loss.
http://www.davidboulogne.com/photoproject.html
We also went back to our Holloway Road location. Sophie drives Claire back to Natalie's flat, where she is staying. We were trying to capture the end of the relationship, with two shots, one inside the car, a strained and empty conversation about nothing, and then the car pulling up and Claire stepping out and waving goodbye to Sophie. Sophie's part is small, but I wanted her role to be more than a support for Claire. She has her own journey which is similar and contrasts with Claire's. What could see in her as she watches Claire step out of the car and wave goodbye? Well, all our work was for nought as we found we could not see her face clearly through the windscreen. We were left with a vague shape in the windscreen and the indicators on the car. This might work. If not, we will need to rethink the scene.
We ended the shoot at the pub The White Hart on Stoke Newington High Street (http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/43/4360/White_Hart/Stoke_Newington). This takes places at the end of the first segment. Claire has just come from seeing Natalie's flat for the first time and meets up with Sophie to tell her about it. Sophie, here already has an inkling that her relationship is falling apart and is not much interested and has trouble following what Claire is talking about.
I also introduced another actor to the production, Fred, who will play Paul. We shot one scene with Paul, Natalie, and Claire. Here Paul discovers Natalie, the sister that Claire has never spoken about.
Where are we left? We have to shoot all the scenes with Paul, plus a few new scenes I just wrote. This will all have to wait for October, as JC just left for China for six weeks.
Next, David's photos...