Filming process!!!

 Hello everyone!! Today was our first day filming!!!! We all met up at our selected location, Indian Trace Park, and agreed to meet up at 1:30pm. I'm not gonna lie, there was unexpected troubles along the way.  In the beginning, all of the tables were used and we needed one as it was a part of our set design process. One of my group members, Brennan, had to go and ask the person politely if they could let us borrow the table for our class project. The person ended up saying no in the beginning, but we got a hold of it later on thankfully. We pulled out the script, as well as the storyboard to guide us for the opening :)

Afterwards, we begun with an establishing shot of Asher (Brennan) sitting down at the park working on his project and waiting for Austin. During the whole park scene, I was the director for the whole thing. I guided Brennan on how he should portray himself when it came to facial expressions. As for Jp, one of his struggles, as well as Brennans, was trying to not laugh when it came to the dialouge. Which is totally understandable since I was also holding in my laughter. But I advised him to treat as a natural conversation and let it flow naturally. To no think about the fact that he's acting, but just treat the situation as reality. 

As for the camera, we had one and it was handheld. I was holding the camera on one hand, and holding the mic on the other. Thankfully, Brennan could borrow it from his TV production class. If not, that would've been a whole other situation we didn't have to go through. We used handheld camera work during the confrontation scene at the park to create a psychological discomfort. Now, when we filmed at Brennans house, Jp was filming but having the camera held hand gave it a effect that I wasn't expecting. Having the camera be handheld gave an almost creepy effect if that makes sense? It adds character to our opening and went very well with the dark lighting that we were aiming for. 

Overall, our filming process taught me many things, like you can never be prepared for everything. New problems may appear, and it's up to you how you handle it.