'Love Always' Day 2 shoot

I could attend a few hours of the second day of the 'Love Always' shoot as I had other work commitments.
Today was another successful day, however there was one set back.

Dean and I had written the character of Johnny as Mary's younger brother as a 8-10 year old who was boistrous and playful, a bit of  a toerag. However Dan and Hennie decided to cast a family member of dan's 4 year louie to play the role. After looking at the script it worked as he didn't have many lines so could be turned into a younger character. However on the day Louie was really good for the first half of the day but it was clear as the day went on he began to get tireder and grumpier and by 2pm he did not want to do any more acting. After countless numbers of bribing with sweets and toys, he was adamant that he would not do any more acting today.

The next step was for myself and the producer, Hennie to sit down and look at Johnny's scenes and see where we could cut him from without making too many changes to the storyline. We had to take 20 minutes out of the filming time so that we could make these changes but they were definitely necessary as filming wouldn't have been able to continue without them. We managed to cut Johnny out so the scenes still made sense without him. I was glad that I had come to this shoot as I was able to see the changes and help out with the script. I have become quite attached!