An Interesting First Day of Filming

 

Welcome back to my blog reader! My team and I concluded that we would not be able to film any of our scenes over Spring break. This break was the most suitable time for us, but our team member Hailey will be going out of town for the whole break thus leading us to make the decision to film at another time. Having to change our filming schedule was a huge issue for us because once Spring break was over, testing season would begin. We then gloriously realized that we would have Friday off from school right after the break which facilitated things for us and relieved us from our stress. Now that we had our filming day marked on our calendars, we began to discuss what our next steps would be. Our team member Kyra would be going to the mall with her friends over Spring Break, which presented us with the great opportunity of getting establishing shots from this location. We then decided that the weekend prior to our now established filming date, Kyra and I would go to Hailey’s house to begin filming the first scenes which was our character waking up in an empty house and getting ready for the day that awaited her. Hailey’s mom allowed us to us to use her room for this scene, we had to keep re-shooting the scene time and time again as Hailey had a hard time acting it out. For this scene Hailey had to yawn, which was difficult for her to act it out as it made her laugh, which made us laugh leading to taking quite a while to get this scene done. After we were able to get it to our satisfaction, we moved on to the next scene in our schedule which was the bathroom scene. Our aim was to make this scene appear as natural as we could make it, meaning Hailey had to pretend to be sleepy/look like she just woke up. This scene we also had to keep re-shooting as we kept laughing due to that Kyra had to do a close up on Hailey’s face while she was trying to pretend to act panicked but kept laughing due to that she was holding the camera up to her face when she was trying to act the scene, this led us to laugh with her. We then were finally able to get our scene together. Well this is my cue to leave, till next time reader! 


                                                                          


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