Helloo!! Welcome back or welcome to my blog! I'm very excited to share with you guys my group and I's experience on shooting days.
Filming days have been super fun yet productive. Since my group has a delay due to our rearrangements, we have had to get as much as possible done in our filming days. So far, we've gotten together 3 times to film so far. Each time, we go to Mariana's house and figure out local, close-distanced location to showcase. During these times, we've focused on filming mostly our flashback scenes and some present day ones as well, but we also have pending location plans. On February 11-13, we actually are going on a College Field trip sponsored by our school to explore the public colleges in our state. This field trip actually inspired our idea for the entire film! With this location, we can make our film much more realistic by showcasing the actual colleges our characters plan to attend in real life. I mention this to give some context into what our current and future filming days look like.
Day 1:
On day one, we focused on filming 3 specific things.
1.Storyboarding
On the first day we were SUPER excited to finally turn our ideas into reality. With our time crunch and scheduling predicament, we knew we immediately get started on our storyboard to organize our ideas and serve as a blueprint. Me, Phi, and Nahomy headed to Mariana's house pretty early on to ensure we had enough time to storyboard AND get some filming done. After a good chunk of time, we finallyyy finished storybaording and let the boys know they could start heading over.
At this point, we didn't realize how much time had passed, and we really needed to film our car scene because we wanted to capture the light of golden hour. Although we rushed to catch the light, once we got in the car we knew we wouldn't have to try hard to execute the vibe we wanted. The sun was PERFECT, and in the car while we filmed, we played Ribs by Lorde( our background music in the film), which really got us in the zone. However, one challenge we did experience what getting the lighting right for our establishing shot. Our establishing shot is a close up of the radio in the car, which is fairly easy to capture, but the glare of the sun made the song title on the radio illegible, which was the whole point of shot. We ended up having to use our quick thinking skills and use Phi's jacket to cover the light, which thankfully worked. The entire car scene shooting went fairly smoothly after that, other than the fact that Mariana was driving( she's not the best driver)... it was a tad but scary but we were okay!!😀😀
By the time the sun went down, we had already caught the sunlight we needed to catch, and it was time for our nighttime gas station scenes. THIS. WAS. NOT. EASY!!!! Okay maybe I'm being a bit dramatic... But seriously, we went through a hassle trying to find a gast station we were allowed to film at. Firstly, we attempted to film at the gas station closest to Mari's house, but when we asked the workers if it was okay... they said no😊 We took the L and headed to the second closest gas station. We took yet ANOTHER L because they also said no! At this point, we were completely over it and pretty discouraged, but we did not give up👿👿. Finally, we went to the last and farthest gas station. For this gas station, we learned from our mistakes and decided not to ask for permission... Luckily, these employees were really cool and they didn't mind at all. After this, it was a breeze. We basically just ate snacks and hung out, so the scene looked natural and vibrant.
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