James: Gabs and I started scheduling the shooting order. We wanted to keep it as linear as possible, but obviously we couldn't shoot all the film in order. It was a logistical nightmare, but strangely enough, we did it quite well. We stuck pretty much to our filming schedule despite having never done one before. It was our bible though, and a crucial pice of preparation. Who knows where we'd have been without it.
Gabby: We knew that we had 3 days starting from Sunday (that's including pack up time) to film in the flat, so that scheduling fell easily into place. We also knew that we had the school children available to use the weekend after. This meant that we needed Olivia and Zak (Mel & Sean) around for these days. This left us a nice gap in between to shoot the office & Nan scenes. the rest happily fitted around all this.
We checked and double checked that we hadn't left any scenes out of the schedule, and like James said, that schedule then became our primary point of reference.
James: I remember the actors thought we were very organised. I realised that perception is crucial. If we act organised, we are organised, even amongst chaos.
