Filming

 Hi blog!! 

Good news :) Filming was started and wrapped last week! YAAAAYYYYY you don't understand how happy this makes me!! Let me tell you how it went: 

So Renn and I created a super awesome shot list in order to make sure we shoot everything (it can get confusing without it since we are filming everything out of order). It was a really silly process because we would doodle out our ideas on a notebook paper to decide what we wanted for each shot. You can view our shot list here!

Then, Thursday (March 26th)  last week was supposed to be our first filming day, but we ran into a big issue: we checked out everything except a battery TV programs equipment closet. We all take full responsibility for this though, we should've checked to make sure we checked everything out. We freaked out for a second because our actors were already on set with us and we didn't want to waste everyones time (spoiler alert we did end up loosing that day for shooting). The good thing is that Renn and I know a friend who has the same kind of batteries and charger, so Renn quickly ran out to go get it while Kenna and I went through the script with our wonderful actresses! It was also a good moment for them to bond since they are supposed to be best friends in our film and this was their first time meeting. Sadly, our battery situation got worse. Our friends battery charger was damaged and wouldn't charge. By that point, Kenna, Renn, and I looked at each other and we all were like "ok yeah we lost this filming day". At least our actresses were able to meet and bond. We then rescheduled and decided we were going to try and get almost everything on Sunday (March 29).

Sunday (March 29th)

Crazy insane locked in fantastic productive shooting day. So basically: We started at 12:30pm. We knew we wanted to start shooting Stephanie's (Dahlias) scenes first, so we told Estefania (Melia) that we would call her when we needed her! We shot the entire opening sequence (Dahlia getting ready for the her party) and then a lot of inserts of thing and walls in Dahlia's room. Everything was running pretty smoothly and we shot this scene quickly. After that, we shot the scene of Dahlia coming back to her room after her birthday party. Since it was still the middle of the day we closed all the windows and used a tube light to try and make it look like nighttime (the night isnt purpleish but we liked the style of it). We also kept the lights on in the bathroom and that added a yellowish glow to Stephanie which we loved.

Ok then we filmed the montage. What I thought was going to be the easiest thing to film ended up being long, annoying, and tedious. We had a bunch of different days we wanted to highlight in this montage that would help us show Dahlias workload, the passage of time, and the growth of sprout. But filming every day/time skip required us to change the look of everything. For example: messiness, writing on the whiteboard, desk, bed, outfit. It probably took us around 2-3 hours to shoot everything. After that we took a nice hour long break and ate some pizza! This is also a good moment to mention that we made 2 insta reels.

At 5pm right after our lunch break Estefania came! We had a quick mini photoshoot with her, Stephanie, and Sprout. This is for our postcard and any promotional stuff for the Instagram! It was super cute and fun! After that we filmed the confrontation of Dahlia and Melia, which went pretty smoothly! We were rushing a bit though because that's when we realized we wouldn't have time to film the ending scene or Melia and Dahlia leaving for the party scene. We talked to our actresses and decided we would film that on Friday, April 3rd. Sadly, Kenna wouldn't be able to go because she had a color guard bonding. After that, Stephanie and Estefania changed into their party dresses and we shot the scene with them outside in the trunk of Dahlias car during the party. It was a nit chaotic because we rushed a bit, and our tube light died so we had to find an extension chord to plug in Renns light kit. And after that, it was a wrap for the day yay!!!!!!!

Friday (April 3rd)

 Honestly quick and easy. We did the same thing that we did on Sunday by filming Stephanie first and then Calling Estefania to come after. We quickly shot the ending with new and old sprout. After that we called Estefania and we filmed our very very very last scene which was them leaving for the party. We took 3 hours for both scenes which was great! And then Renn and I took the set down. Heres a quick video I shot: