Filming Blog: Isolation

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, my group and I haven’t been able to meet up as often as usual. However, today we met to film scenes that hadn’t been finished yet. Of course, we’ve been told we need to self-isolate ourselves so we made sure to finish filming in my house and not revise our beach scenes. Today we filmed for a total of two hours. We managed to get the majority of our leftover scenes. Although we did get much done, we still have to work on a few more scenes and our creative critical reflection. Two out of our total of six cast and crew members weren’t able to make it today. This included our male character who we still have to film an entire scene with. Through this process we ran into a few small issues. First, it was still light outside which took away from the ominous setting we were hoping for. Then, we couldn’t film the two sisters in the same dress at the same time because we only had one dress. To fix this problem, we filmed double the scenes but with half with one girl in the dress and half with the other in the dress. Next, as stated previously, we don’t have the proper camera or tripod so we had to get creative with trying to stabilize an IPhone camera. We ended up being able to just hold the camera with a steady hand. Also, our two main characters changed their hair so it made it difficult to tell time in the scenes. This ended up working out in a way because it helps confuse the audience on which sister is doing what. Lastly, the noise. Due to the pandemic, all of my family has been at home which could be a little chaotic when filming. However, we used this as an opportunity to realize that on real movie sets, there could be ten times the amount of people that were there. To fix this, we ended up having to silence everyone before each take. We also closed doors when filming in rooms.