Love in Your Pocket Pre-Production

I really enjoyed the two projects I worked on, mainly because they were so different and it allowed me the chance to pick up a lot of different skills, and learn a lot about being a director. I've said before that there were quite a few hiccups when it came to the pre-production for Love in Your Pocket, at least from my perspective.

Pre-production got properly started quite a bit later than I had anticipated and it was a very different experience to Beaulieu, because the project was a completely different beast. It meant scouting a lot of locations as we'd need somewhere different for every contributor we met with. It was a really great experience going to different locations and meeting people, and it really showed me how much we've all grown since the first year.

Having met people about locations we then had to meet the contributors whom Hannah would be talking to in the film. Hannah, Ben and Lauren managed to get a lot of the contributors on board without an issue, but there was one that we were worried about. The plan was for Hannah to meet a colleague of hers called Steve, who we had planned to chat to, at the pub they both work at, over a drink. He highlighted to us that he can get a little out of control around alcohol if he's nervous so we decided to sit down with him to make sure that he was fine with what we were doing. After meeting with him we decided that it wasn't going to be a problem and he was just being overly cautious.

Unfortunately parts of the film weren't planned as well as they could have been. There was a scene we wanted to shoot on the streets of London where we would be taking the concept for one of the dating apps and applying it to the real world to see how people's attitudes changed when it became face to face. The planning for this wasn't focused on properly, but I was assured that it would all be alright. We did end up facing quite a few difficulties on the day, never mind we were shooting this scene a week later than we had already planned. We ended up having to completely abandon our original plan and come up with something on the fly, which did end up working. It did show me that when it came down to it, we're all very good at working under pressure and getting it done.