That’s A Wrap!!

 Today was production day number two, also known as our last day of production. Taking what we have learned from production day one, the filming process went much more smoothly and we were able to film everything we needed. Due to the fact that this is Florida, we could not film past 6 p.m. because it was going to start raining, which would ruin our shots outside. However, we were on schedule and we’re able to finish in less than two hours. First we filmed all our scenes inside. We didn’t have to worry about setting up since we left the set decorated from the previous day. We shot the scenes we drew in our storyboard with a variety of different angles so we had more to choose from when editing.

Then, we filmed the scenes that would come after the film opening and title card. We had to wait until 5:30 p.m. to do this since we needed a car. When Julia’s mom arrived with her car, we hustled to get all the shots done before it would start raining. We filmed a scene of Malia getting into her car to go to school, and getting a text from her friend asking if she got into the writing program she applied for. One of the biggest obstacles was figuring out how to film anything involving a phone screen since the camera could be seen in the reflection, or it would not focus. We solved this by filming a variety of shots where the camera was hidden to see which one would work with editing. While originally we wanted to film the text message as the notification popped up, we may have to show the text message already sent since it was the only way the camera would focus. We discussed how to solve this problem by throwing around the idea of adding a ringtone sound effect when the message is shown to create the impression it was just sent. I really think that because we shot scenes a variety of times we won’t need to do any reshoots, which makes the production process an overall success.