Progress of Drama film

The group and I have been meeting up at the Hubs a few times, we went location scouting and shot some beginning scenes. I suggested Old Jacobs Factory to be the busker/ homeless guy character's home and we're going to film around that story.

Creating some prop/set design, we found all the items around the factory

We created a hobo bed with a tyre as a head rest, a cushion , a wooden board for the bed, a few bottles and an empty can of beer with a dusty/dirty  brown cloth that we found around the Old Jacob's Factory.

Burned book I found

One of the first scenes that was filmed, with James as the camera opera and Joe as the director

Actor on a 'set' we designed

Unfortunately, we expected to film all the scenes last Friday and get it all edited by Monday, but didn't manage to. We got stood up by an actor that claimed he had 'a rough night' and 'he left his phone at his friend's house and woke up at 3pm'. So Gino, Joe, James and I had all the film equipment booked out, guitar case, a blue acoustic guitar ready at the Forge  underpass, we waited for 2 hours, the actor never informed us that he wasn't coming, and he wouldn't answer the phone. James managed to get some location shots though.
Along with an actress that we lost, she was willing to come all the way from Nottingham to film the cafe scene (which Gino told her not to come at the end). This is a very disappointing moment, almost like a film crew tragedy.
However, we got it all sorted out and the actor agreed to be filmed tomorrow (Monday 29th April 2013). This happened to me before once for the composograph, but I immediately found another actor that was David, he came along with me to Three Tun's Pub, I got some help from him with sound composition but he was willing to act as well.

Having the role of the sound designer, Joe (the director) told me he wanted a score that was similar to Gus Black's Don't Fear the Reaper:


I've worked along side with a person (David) that has musical knowledge and created an acoustic, light piano, some drums, a dark musical composition on Guitar Pro 6, which I'm going to export it as a midi file and open it up on Logic Pro 9 which I will choose the instruments/ create my own intruments/ warp it and etc. This score reminded me of DJ Shadow's 'Building Steam with a Grain Salt' which is influential to this musical piece:

I've noticed that our short drama film is a clash between Dark Days and The Seventh Seal, we haven't come up with the title yet, but if I had to choose, I'd choose 'Dark Seal', 'Black Coffee' or 'Bleak Coffee'. Inspired by Dicken's title 'Bleak House'.

Besides the setbacks, everything seems to be running smoothly, I'm still a bit worried as some of the people in my group lack technical skills to edit (apparently) or has never captured footage before.