It's Filming Time!!

 The time has finally arrived! After weeks of meticulous planning, Julia and I are filming our film opening this week. It feels so rewarding to finally see our ideas and plans come to life. Before we get ahead of ourselves, there are a few items we have to collect to ensure filming goes by as smoothly as possible. We will be having a two-day shoot, one for the scenes in the bedroom and one for the scenes in the car. This will ideally take place on Thursday and Saturday. Once we finally film all our content, we can get started on the post-production process. In preparation for our first scheduled filming day, Julia and I will be collecting a few items to use as props and/or aide in filming.

First, we will be filming on a Canon camera I have to ensure the quality of the shots is high. While the setting is in Julia's room, I will take some of the many movie posters in my room and hang them in Julia's room in order to give off a more teenage impression. We will need to figure out the placement of our camera that produces the shots most similar to our storyboard and has the best lighting. We need to photoshop the college acceptance letters as well as the writing program flyers, and then print them out to scatter them across Julia's room. In addition, we need to crumble pieces of paper and write a heavily annotated manuscript on a piece of lined paper (at least one page). We need to make one of the most important parts of the opening, the plot board. We will do this by writing down different writing terms as well as references to Malia's book on index cards and hanging them on a closet door. I need to take an alarm clock to Julia's house and set the time to early in the morning. Lastly, we need to ensure we shoot earlier in the morning so we get optimum sunlight. This week should be exciting and the pre-production process has ensured me that everything should go to plan.