First Filming Day!

 

    THAT'S  A WRAP ON FILMING DAY ONE! As you can tell, I am very excited that we have begun to film, as not only does it feel good to know that we are progressing towards actualizing our vision for the docu-series but also that we are checking off specific clips we need to start editing in around 2 weeks, spring break. Let me run through the day of filming:

1.     Being the busy theater girls we are, we had tech week all week this week for our upcoming production of the musical "Pippin", which is coming up in a couple days and demands major planning from Sof and I for this project, but that's for another blog post! That being said today was the last day of tech rehearsal this week, meaning that after we were done at 5:30 we would go straight to Markham Park (the park where they all meet up).
2. Knowing that we would have to go straight from school, Sof brought her Sony camera as well as asked one if our best friend's Julia (whose also in this class) could bring her tripod, just in case we wanted more stable shots. (She ended up saying yes! Thank you Julia!)
3. We finish rehearsal and go straight to the park, with the sun setting causing a BEAUTIFUL sunset that you can see below with the rest of the pictures we took at the park. We used this to our advantage and got some really cool shots that we still need to download, mainly including scenic shots of the surrounding areas close to their meet up spot.
4. We will surely need to return to get some day shots of planes as we didn't get any with the planes, as well as more specific location shots for the introduction montage of the location that would be consistent for every episode, of course revolving around the different locations that each community is in.
5. Found out that we have at least 2 interviewees for the more individual segment of the episode, and want to find a third to focus on as the three main subjects of the episode until the episode would move into them as a group (the part of the ep. that we won't be showing).

    Below are pictures from the night of filming (it was cold that's why I made that face in one of the pictures, enjoy):

 they gave us food from their barbecue!

    Overall, it was a successful filming day and I'm excited to download all the footage. The shots allow us to play with color-grading in the way we wanted to/ let us experiment with making a more cinematic look before focusing on the more grounded, raw interviews, a key reason as to why we wanted to do a short film in the beginning stages of the project. While we will do what we need to do to serve the story, we will also be bringing in our personalized touch that offers our perspective through our production choices, such as in editing.