Production Blog: First day Filming

 Hello bloggers! I hope everything is going well. I am back to share some news on the short film. Today me and my group decided that we would start filming. We hopped on a facetime call and we started sharing ideas on how we would start. Nick said that we should go to his house to film but we ended up scratching that plan off. After maybe 40 minutes of thinking about our decision we finally came to a choice. We would go to film at Constanza's house as it is generally close to a lot of places that would be useful for the filmmaking. So I get my things and I head out to her house so we could get started. We start by choosing which scene we would do first and we decided to do a scene where the friend group is waiting to be picked up. Then after that we would go to film everyone running to the car. This took more than one try since we all stumbled on each other twice but no one got badly hurt so it was okay lol. We then had to film everybody getting in the car as if we were about to go out. So we filmed me and nick jumping into the back of the truck which was pretty cool. However it took some tries to get the timing down from the both of us. Then we filmed one of our actors cleaning a car and getting paid for it since it was one of our scenes. After that we ended up filming  a few extra scenes with the group. These would serve as backup in case we wanted to change anything. But  that will be it for today. See ya later bloggers!







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