Filming time!

 Hi blog!

The day is finally here! The pre-production process was a struggle to be honest, but thankfully it's over. As I begin to set everything in place for my scene to shoot, I wasn’t exactly able to get the camera where I wanted it. It was such a mess. I spent a great amount of time just trying to figure out the angle I wanted my camera to be in. As I realized this, I started filming to capture my frustration. Of course, I am not in costume yet because I just wanted to make sure that the phone was perfectly in angle before I got ready, and this was very helpful because I didn’t have to spend even more time than needed to get in costume, as I wasn’t going to capture my main footage here. The cutouts wall isn’t up either because all of the cut outs are taped together, and I can just tape it to the wall on and off, so this was before I had even put in a costume or set up the wall.

After a while, my sister got home and came to my help. Since she’s in CBTV (a club for filming and production), she had some useful items and handed me a tripod. She also helped me adjust it and we were able to get it to the right angle that I wanted it to be. Once the set up was done, I finally began to shoot. This part was pretty fun, honestly. Since I started shooting later at night, however I could not get the high key lighting that I wanted so I only did the scenes that I could within the lighting that I had. It really sucked to realize that after all of that time that I spent trying to get my camera set up perfectly, I wasn’t going to be able to film much, but at least I learned how to do it and now I can do it again on day 2.