Production Blog: Filming Discoveries

 Hello bloggers! I hope all of you are having a good day. As you may know from the last blog we started filming our short film. We looked over all of the scenes we filmed and made sure there was nothing wrong with them. We also used a editing software to make some tweaks to the audio and quality of the film. That took us about 40 minutes as a whole and then we got into the day's plan. We decided that we would film some more scenes today for our film. We sat down and discussed which scenes we would film. We ended up choosing the scenes that were supposed to be at the beach and we got ready to head out. We went out and we struggled to find parking at the beach since for some reason it was super packed. After we parked we walked onto the beach and began to look for a place to settle our things at.Our original plan was to go near the ocean and look for sea shells until we found a chest. Well, while we were just all hanging out there, we explored and found an abandoned boat. We all got so happy because it would add a really good and cool scenery to our film. We changed most of that scene. Instead of finding the chest on the sand, we found it inside of the boat. Also, for the last scenes, we needed another 2 cops. I asked my dad and his wife if they could do it and they said yes. These might be small changes. We got really stressed out by all of this. But we always figure it out. We had so much fun inside the boat. We felt like we were in an actual movie. It was so much fun. It was also a great bonding experience for all of us. Well, that is all for this blog. See ya later bloggers!



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