Filming Blog: At the Park

 Yesterday, my teammates and I met up for our first day of filming. Before seeing each other, we made sure to bring masks and go over CDC guidelines in regards to the pandemic. We met at Sophia's home and then decided to a nearby park to film the first half of out outdoor scenes. Before arriving at the park, we made sure to pack towels to sit on and went to a nearby restaurant to get food so it looked like we were there for a picnic. While filming, there was a children's baseball game going on, which made the parking lot fairly crowded. However, when arriving to our location in the park, there wasn't as many people as it seemed. We did have to pause a few times to allow people to walk by or cheer for the kids, but it wasn't a problem. We started by filming scenes of us having fun for extra footage and to start the movie off at a high note. Then we filmed the characters saying goodbye to each other, followed by their tracking shots going in different directions. We then cleaned up and headed to our next location. Our movie begins and ends outdoors. Our next location was a smaller park in Sophia's neighborhood. My teammates had to change clothes for this shot because some time would have passed in the movie. Then, I filmed them individually walking towards each other (medium close-up). We tried filming a conversation between the two characters, but there was some noise going on in the back from animals outside. We ended up having to film these scenes a few times and even took a break to film a video for our film social media. Finally, we were able to get the scenes done before heading back to the house. Then, we went through the footage to make sure we were done for the day. Today in class, we created a photo album to share the videos between on another. In doing this, we all have the videos available to edit together.