Production Blog: First Group Filming Session

 My group and I have finally met up. I had to pick up one of our actresses, Mya. At first we set up a time to meet but my team member had an appointment so they tried to filming earlier. Unfortunately, we ended up filming the originally scheduled time because I live in Deerfield and had to drive to Fort Lauderdale. We met at Akiel’s house and got right to work. The first thing we did was film the establishing shot. We took multiple shots of the neighborhood. One way we did this was by getting high ground. We did a 360-degree overview of the neighborhood. We only filmed scenes 1, 3,5,10, and 11. We then drove to the Corner store and went inside to ask for permission to film. Once we received an okay we filmed the scene of Akiel looking for a snack. Then we shot an eyeline shot. We had to reshoot the scene from different angles. Mya and I set up outside of the store. Once Akiel was done with his solo scenes we filmed our scenes. We filmed the speaking scene but the environment was very noisy. We refilmed a few times to see if the noise would decrease. I came up with the idea that we should use the voice memo app to film our voices. We did a few test runs using the voice memo app and realized that it was best for us. We filmed this scene multiple times because we had some cue issues. We all could be a bit camera shy since we kept laughing while saying the dialogue. In the middle of filming the sun started to shift. We thought it would be a good idea to switch sides and film where the sun was coming from but that did not works .