Filming Blog: Starting to Film the memory scene

Recently, my group and I began the filming process for our movie. After school we decided to take get some quick good and went to eat at iHop, and got free pancakes since it was the “National Pancakes Day”. We however did not just eat and mess around, we in fact talked a lot about the plan for the day for example what we were going to be recording from and all the props we needed to in order to make our film more realistic and more professional, such as our previous powerpoint had entailed. After eating at iHop, Ryan drove us all to the park which was pretty close to the iHop. The weather was perfect, as it was a very nice sunny day which helped us have good quality lighting in our film. As soon as we got to the park we took and establishing shot that will probably be the first scene of the flashback. We however had some trouble when we started acting due to the fact that at first we could not stop laughing and messing around. I being the director of the film had to try and take charge of my group as they goofed off a good amount. 

Furthermore, we finally started to take our work more seriously, and after we had some fun and we recorded most of it. We made a little campfire where we toasted the marshmallows and recorded the scene that we all hang out around the fire and talk, this was done to truly give a sense of camping. We had to retake this scene a couple of times because the fire kept turning off. Luca took care of it and took some branches and poured some more rubbing alcohol that we had just bought. After we were done recording this scene we started recording the kidnapping scene and it came out just as we had planned for it to look. We just needed to record it a few times to make sure that everything and everyone was good and there were no mistakes. An example of this would be, in the first kidnapping shot we took, everything seemed good, but when we rewatched it you could hear some of us talking in the background. We finished basically most of it, we were just missing a scene, but we ran out of time because it got late and too dark outside. This subsequently made the shots look bad so we just decided to call it a day, we will go back to finish it on Friday and we'll make sure to wear the same clothes and have the same things as last time. We had something we had to change from our original plan that we wrote down in the story board and that was the amount of people we had brought to help us record and to be part of our Movie. We originally thought we were going to have a large group coming, but only six ended up coming which actually was better because it was easier to keep under control and it was also easier to stay focused.