Started the filming!

Today my group decided to focus on the filming of our main character.  We decided to ask Violet’s brother, Cole, if he could help us by being part of our film.  He agreed to be in our video.  We were very happy that he accepted to help us.  We were somehow concerned that our schedules were not allowing us to set time aside to do the filming during day time.  In addition, this time around we also needed to consider our main character’s schedule as well.  Violet started filming her brother while he was laying in bed.  We had to improvise with the lighting and setting, due to the time of the day we got to film.  Surprisingly, it all looked almost like if we had originally planned it like that. Some of the scenes were filmed more than just a few times. We had to find the best angles for the scenes to show what we wanted.  Our film includes the main character waking up to an alarm that has been set up.  We had previously prepared some text messages on the phone that the main actor uses in the film.  This way it would look like there was a real text conversation on the phone.  Our actor is supposed to send a text message to his ex-girlfriend on the scene.  We were able to take other shots, so that we had various options to insert when editing our film.  We made sure that we used different angles, such as bird’s eye shots, over the shoulder, among others.  We all gave our opinion regarding the shots we took.  We made sure that we all agreed with what we had filmed.  Although we all had busy schedules and time limitations, we made some good progress filming today!


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