Shooting Day 2

I hope this title sequence does not take 150 days to shoot, but we are taking it one day at a time.

As we were getting ready to start shooting on our second day I realized that Addie and I needed some extra help. Since we had created a team with just the two of us, and would both be acting within the same scenes I thought it would be best to have an extra set of hands to help with everything. This extra set of hands ended up being my younger brother and sister.

I gave my sister the responsibility of using her iPhone to film scenes with both Addie and I. We gave her a run down of the plot of the movie and our brand, this gave her an idea of what kind of shots we wanted to capture for our film. I told her some specific shots I needed to get but a part from that I gave her creative liberty and let her do what looked best on camera.

My brother was given the responsibility of collecting and managing our props. Since we would be filming at the park I thought it would make sense to bring some balls or scooters that we could use at the park. My brother found his basketball and gathered together some of his old scooters for us to use. He later helped to carry our props around the park and made sure that the props not being used in the scene stayed out of the way while we were filming.

Not only did they help with the physical creation of the footage but they helped keep Addie and I on schedule as well. Being friends Addie and I tend to get distracted talking to one another and playing around instead of filming, but since I put my sister in charge of filming we could talk and capture great footage at the same. Without the stress of having to direct ourselves for specific shots or using a tripod to shoot, the footage we captured came out looking more natural.

The one disappointment that did occur while filming was us only having the opportunity to film within the two parks and not other locations. Depending on what our rough cut looks like we may end up shooting in other locations, as we had initially planned to do, in order to add some variety to the film.

While I do plan on having to film, and refilm, more scenes for the movie I am excited to see the results of the initial rough cut and be able to show it to all of you as well.

Resources:

“David Fincher Quotes.” BrainyQuote, Xplore, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/david_fincher_445531.