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Day 1
Long awaited, the first day of filming has arrived. We had some trouble finding a date to finally begin filming because we had to find a day that not only accommodated Sofia and I's schedule, but also both of our actors' as well as our set since it was only available certain days. However, it finally happened and we began to film this afternoon.
Our day of filming began right after school. Well, sort of, because I got very sick over the weekend and I almost did not make it to filming at all, but fighting through the fatigue and coughing, I made it. While Sofia and our actors waited for me, however, they went ahead and tried on the costumes that we had chosen out for them last week to make sure that they fit, as well as the jewelry options we had for them. At my house I also found some other bracelet and ring options that I thought could work, so I also brought these with me when finally I went to Sofia's house, our set.
We did need to change one of the scenes from our original storyboard however and this was the scene with the mom because the actress that was originally going to be the mom did not match well with the actress that is playing Lily, and we could not find anyone that could fill in. Instead, we changed the scene so that the mother would not be home at the moment and the characters would be interacting with Lily's annoyed younger brother, played by Sofia's brother. However, we needed to wait for him to get out of school because his school does not release until a little after 4. Until then, we played with our actors, positioning them in the places we planned in our storyboard to see if we liked the planned shots and set up our props around the house as we needed them as can be seen in this video
We chose to film all of the indoor scenes today because we just got hit with a cold front, again, and it was much too cold to be in our summer attire biking outside. So, we turned on the heating in the house and filmed everything from the moment the girls walk in to the very last moment of the film opening.
Filming went rather smoothly today with nothing much too serious to note. Only a couple of shots were re-shot in account of some giggling, lack of continuity, or simply because we wanted to try something new.
Day 2
Today, the temperature has increased once again, making it possible to shoot all of our outdoor scenes, which make up the majority of our film opening in a sort of montage.
Once again, we started right after school, and, now that we had the costumes picked out, we started a lot sooner. This ended up being good for us as well because, today, we needed as much sunlight as we could get, and with Daylight Savings time, we were short on time. Also, the day ended up being pretty cloudy so we were worried about it not looking as sunny as we wanted it to, but the clouds were moving quite a bit so we did end up being able to have large patches of sunlight shining through.
Most, if not all, of the shots from today would need both of our characters biking around so we also first needed to make sure our bikes had air in the tires so our actors wouldn't die or something, I'm not quite sure what happens when the tires aren't pumped. Once both of our bikes were ready, we started filming.
The biggest issue with our shots from today, however, were that most of them took place in the middle of the road and they weren't exactly empty streets, so we had to wait or be interrupted quite often for the sake of not being run over. Because of this, we also did lose quite a bit of daylight so we ended up deciding to need a 3rd day to film because it was much darker by the time we filmed these last few shots than when we started which would make us lose continuity.
The majority of the scenes that we filmed today didn't have many lines so it was mostly a matter of camera work, which made it a very simple day of filming once we sorted out all the other quirks we had in the mix.
Here are some behind the scenes clips from both days:
Day 2: Timelapse of Walk to Location
And a clip of me almost getting run over, but anything for the shot (sound on):
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