1) The document describes the author's failed attempt to film their final major project about the Russian Sleep Experiment. 2) They spent weeks planning but production was plagued by problems, including short filming windows, actors dropping out or not taking it seriously, and equipment issues. 3) After two disastrous filming days where actors were unprepared or disruptive and equipment failed, the author decided to cancel their booking, change their story, and film at home instead.

1. Weekly Diary 1
Ever since the ghost story audio project, I wanted to make a movie on the creepy pasta: The Russian Sleep Experiment. When I
didn’t get the chance to make it in the audio project I planned to make it for my Final Major Project, I devoted weeks (maybe
even months) to planning the story and everything required for it. I filled out all the power points and proposal with my plans for
the Russian Sleep Experiment, I bought loads of props, booked equipment and film studio and recruited actors who I thought
would fit the role, but in the end all of this planning and preparation was for nothing because the production turned out to be a
massive tier fire of problems.
I was given 60 to 90 minutes at the end of Tuesdays and Wednesdays starting at 3:00 to film, I understood that these later times
were to give people enough time to do their projects, but this amount of time did put me under pressure, the short amount of
time I also booked the studio and equipment for didn’t help either. On day one the filming was even worse, most actors dropped
out and the others took a long time putting the costumes on which already took me a while to prepare, they messed around with
the costumes and the props, the camera even took a long time to set up and get to properly film because it kept on saying that it
could only recorded for five seconds. The actors weren’t taking the filming seriously (constantly laughing, sing with equipment
and taking pictures of themselves) and one had to leave early, this whole thing lead to bad acting, a lot of retakes and not many
scenes done (I was only able to get one scene done), this whole disaster only gave me a small chance to take one photo for this
diary.
The second filming day was even worse, most of the actors had to leave early and one was in a separate room spending forever
putting her costume on, I caught her taking pictures of herself which wasted even more time. Running out of time I tried to film
one scene that failed before, the camera kept on turning off, people were passing back and forth from the falls stopping me from
getting to the camera, the music class were screaming at the top of their lungs which disrupted the audio and the actors were
still acting silly. Everything putting me under pressure and draining my patience made me give up, I’ll cancel the booking and give
the equipment back, the actors can’t be relied on so I’m just going to make a new story, change my power points and film at
home.