Production Blogs: We Meet Once Again

 

Welcome!

Yesterday was our second day filming. I think we got a lot of progress done but we still need have work to do. This time, I brought my sisters ukulele as a prop. However, we ended up not using it but that's fine.

When I arrived at the location, the actor wasn't there yet. It was Jordan, Julie, and I. Unfortunately, my teammate Nico couldn’t make it that day due to some issues. But, to not waste time, we began filming scenes where the actor wasn't needed. We filmed a wide angle of the room we're using. I helped my teammates figure out where we could film from and what position is best.

The wide angle didn't take much time and the actor still didn't arrive. So, to pass time, we played video games and ate snacks until the actor arrived. When he did, we all got straight into filming. We had to reshoot some scenes because they didn't sync when put together and it looked choppy.

The scenes we needed to film were the ones where the actor walks to the table and sits, and where he looks back when his mother is calling him. After we re-filmed the scenes we needed, there was a slight issue with the cut. The part where he throws away the apple ends in a black screen, and it interferes with the scene after, and we couldn't re film the apple scene because it took a long time to cut it since there were technical difficulties. So, I suggested that we start the scene after the trash scene, with a black screen so it can match. To do this we used a black poker chip and we taped it to the end of a marker. Recovered the camera with the chip and the marker acting as a handle so our hand wouldn't get in the way of filming. This strange technique worked, and the videos did sink when put together.

After every scene we’d review it as a group and try to fix any minor problems together. This included cutting the video shorter, screen recording videos if the iMovie app was malfunctioning, etc.  

After that, it was time to change settings and begin filming in the room. We had to figure out how the light flickering was going to work. We needed the bedroom lights on at the same time the closet light is on. However, the issue was for the lights to flicker inside the closet, the bedroom lights would turn off and it would be an inconsistency in lighting. I tried fixing this problem with the phone flash and this light we had. By this time, it was getting late for my mother, and she wanted me home so I had to leave before we could finish filming the scene. I trust that Jordan and Julie knew what they were doing, and I have no worries at all about how it came out.

Here is a picture of Jordan getting her poker chip.