Filming Blog: Day 1

Today we finally filmed!  After almost a week of delays we finally got some of our initial shots. We had arraigned to meet up at Nyaria's house after school to film. We choose her house because she a dinning table needed for our date scenes. I had driven my other partner, Preace to her house and when we got there, my partner Katie had brought an unexpected guess, Lucas. Lucas was a kid Katie would drop off from school daily and he tagged along to help and watch us film. Previously, the girls had already planned their outfits while I just simple changed into a dress shirt, very simple. Nyaria however, had to go to work at six, an essential time for our body bag dragging scene as it was nearing sundown. To compensate, we decided to do some of the scenes instead like the date scenes. The actual filming was pretty fun as we had a good time, laughed and shared ideas to make the scenes even better than planned. I remember setting up the camera on a tripod at just the right angle so both parties were shown in the two shot. The funny thing its that we never really delved deep into the specific dialogue for our film. We knew the general message we were trying to invoke, but it turns out that precise dialogue is preferred so we know specifically what to say. It turned out great though as the lines seemed to have came out of us smoothly. A shot that was rather well choreographed was an over the shoulder, following shot that I might say, was pretty well shot as it turned out stable.We ended up wrapping up our date scene but we knew we still had much more left to film. It was nearing 5:40pm when we finished filming, just in time for Nyaria to go to work. So, we wrapped up the shoot, gathered our cameras, tripods, and etc and headed home, waiting for the next filming day.

   

Nyaria on the left, Katie in the middle, and Preace slumped over as apart of a scene.