Re-Shoot Blog: Lockdown

Currently, the world is still panicked due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has spread everywhere. The school district where I live has kept students at home for almost a month now and most sources say that we won't come back till next school year. With the pandemic going on, we have had to social distance from one another. Although we had one day to re-shoot during the quarantine, we weren't able to film everything exactly how we wanted. We also couldn't film our creative critical reflection together. To solve our problem of not recording some of the scenes that needed to be fixed, we decided some of them could be filmed separately. Our two main characters are actually related in and outside of the movie. We figured if there were any interactions between them the needed to be fixed, they would be able to film it. Also, since we weren't able to have cameras for the reshoot, we had to film on an updated iPhone. Lucky for us, three out of the for of us have this updated phone. This includes one of the main characters, which makes it easy to film what she needs. For example, there was a scene where the main character touched a door knob to enter the house but then is taken back when she gets a flashback. My teammate filmed this on her own and we figured out a way to integrate it back into the movie. We also faced one more problem. We planned on filming another scene with the fiancé to make him more significant. However, we weren't able to film with him again after the peer review because of transportation issues and now this quarantine. To fill this time that we lost, we decided to lengthen the scenes where the main character is being chased. We did this by adding different angles and camera  movements. We also decided to elongate the end where the two sisters are struggling. Overall, the reshoot process was successful. Even if we didn't get to redo all that we would have liked, we did get most of the important stuff done.