Weekend recap

My co-directors and I (my sister and her friend) made our ways over to my friends house to record my film "The blind spot." I brought them along for their differing perspectives and expertise on how to improve the shooting session. Starting off it was pretty straight forward, after gathering my actors and dressing them accordingly to the character design I plotted, we began filming. I followed my shot list/ storyboard to a T. We really focused on and emphasized getting the desired angles needed to set the mood. The elements such as wardrobe, setting, and sounds weren't a problem, what became the struggle was the execution of the lines. We had a hard time delivering the lines with the correct emotion they were to be delivered with. For this reason each scene took numerous takes to get just right. As the scenes progress, it became more and more abstract as it was brought to my attention that some scenes had to be lengthened as the editing in between with all the cutting would make it feel almost unnatural. One thing I found most innovated and interesting was us placing a blanket behind the camera in the scenes where the light was meant to be dimmed. We figured we'd burn a lot of time by waiting for the sun to go down so this little D.I.Y trick really helped us out. UNTIL NEXT TIME.....