Filming Begins!

Today was the day production finally started! After all of the planning, storyboarding, and brainstorming; today was the day the cameras came out. We all met at one of the member's houses for production day. Our first couple of scenes were going to be shot at the park a short walk away from her house. When we were walking to the location and mapping out each scene we were about to shoot, we came to a realization. None of us really liked the original script we wrote. We felt it was choppy, too quick, and some scenes did not need to be filmed. This ended up changing many, many scenes and dialogue. The first three scenes were supposed to be Lucy and I stretching and talking. Which would've looked odd since I was not wearing workout clothes and didn't have any wardrobe change on hand. We fixed this by simply making my character say "I forgot!" These two simple words changed the course of the filming. Since our first scene was so drastically altered, it had a domino effect. A great one at that! We were so satisfied with how the clips were turning out that many only need 2-3 takes. The altering and redoing of the scenes took longer than the filming. Since we wanted it to flow much better than the script. We added slight details such as the stalker walking in the background, blurring the background, etc. These additions tailored and customed the film to fit the thriller genre. We finished our first ten slides in a span of two hours and had to call it quits because one of our members had to be picked up.