Film Blog
Today was very hectic. It was our second day and filming and hopefully the last. We only had two other scene location to record and we did both of them today. The first section went very smooth. My aunt played the role of Mom in the film and she cooperated very well. She only had a couple lines which she memorized prior to recording which helped time-wise. We followed the same procedure we used during our first day of filming. We recorded multiple videos from different angles and had our actor do the lines. There wasn't any issues that delayed our production process. The only "issue" we had was the positioning of our camera. Since we don't have any fancy camera equipment, we worked very hard to get the desired angles and lighting. For example, one of our plans was to record from a high angle. To achieve this, I, the cameraman, stood on-top of a stool and hand-held the camera and tripod, while tracking the actor. This wasn't necessarily difficult but getting the camera still as possible took a couple tries. We also timed ourselves this time. This was such a great idea and helped us get things done faster.
The next part we shot, was Kassandra arriving at the grandparents' house. Majority of it was recording her walking up to the door from a different angle. It was very wind so our audios are foggy but I still think it turned out great. We also had to fight with cars passing through the neighbor and listening to make sure we didn't record a scene while they came by. We actually ended up reshooting the scene where she gets out of the car at the end of the day because we forgot the lines "uh i think this is it... here goes nothing." I'm glad we caught that, I would've hated having to spend another day filming.
Our third section of filming was with my uncle and Kassandra, my uncle is playing the psychopath. My uncle was more difficult to work with. Luckly, he did not have too much camera time and Kassandra was the only one required to actually act. He also delayed our schedule a bit because he wasn't on time but at least we made it before the sun could set. For this portion we followed to same procedure of recording the lines from different angles. This was one of the easiest portions to record, there were only a couple angles and no one of them were super hard to achieve. The angles were close-up, over-the-shoulder and mid-shot angle.
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