Filming: Opening scene

This weekend we filmed at Gavin’s house. However, like I stated in the previous blog we did not have enough actors. This was a frustrating experience for me because I know that I reminded them that we didn’t have any actors and they didn’t seem to understand the severity of this problem.  We did not get to film as much as I had hoped due to this so we are currently discussing another time that we would be able to film and who we would be able to use as actors.We were left scrambling to think of actors we could use. Eventually I came up with the idea of using one of my friends from school who I know lives very close to Gavin. I texted him and he said he was able to act in our movie. With the actors we had, we filmed the opening scene of our movie. Amelia, our director was not available to film so I took on her role as director. Amelia’s absence affected the filming process negatively, however while she wasn’t physically there we were still able to contact her. My role as “director” was to make sure we were filming according to our storyboard. I also told our actors if they needed to change their demeanor or add more emotion. In addition, I let our camera person know if they needed to alter the angle they were filming the actors.