Filming Day One

          We started filming today at Kylie's house and it went really well, and after all of that filming I am exhausted. We started at 9 a.m. and stopped filming at about 3:30 p.m. It was difficult to get the ball rolling but when we got the hang of moving around the camera, tripod, props, we became highly efficient and productive. However, I believe that it was hard to film in the beginning because we did not number the pages on our storyboard nor did we write which scene would be filmed in exactly what location, which was a poor move on our part. After realizing how confusing it was to shoot the first few shots, I realized that we could not continue to work that inefficiently and unprepared so I went ahead and went through the storyboard, labeling locations and numbering everything from page numbers to the order that we would be filming each shot in, in each location. Labeling and organizing that made the whole experience go by way smoother than it did initially.

        I was directing all shots with Kylie and vlogging our filming experience all at the same time so that we could put a behind-the-scenes video on our website and all of our blogs. I figured that, that is a great marketing strategy because our audience can see what it took to film Pupa. I also took pictures of our shoot. Unfortunately, whilst filming, Kylie's camera battery died, twice. Instead of doing nothing while waiting for it to charge up, we used the time to create our bloody t-shirt for the final scene and I also recorded the voiceover for the voicemail message Amber's mom leaves her at the beginning of the short film. o we filmed/took pictures of status updates and setting up scenes. 



Here are some pictures from the first day of filming:



          We've decided to film tomorrow after school at Starbucks instead of Panera because it has a better outside seating area that is a bit more intimate than Panera's, Starbucks has smaller tables and it is also a place that always has people sitting outside we we know that we will be able to find friends, families, or couples to put in our short film. Starbucks is also closer to all of our houses. I am relived that most of our filming is done, because we need to start editing as soon as possible so that we can focus on other aspects of our project. The Starbucks is the very first one in our short film, and it also happens to be pretty short.
          In class tomorrow, Taylor and I are supposed to work on the rest of the website, I will edit the behind the scenes vlog, and start the flyer/postcard advertisement.