Day 1 of Shooting (picture needed)

 Our first day of shooting was consistent, productive, and super duper fun. It was a lot of work though, We had started first by printing out our "homecoming" poster that we was going to zoom in on during one of the first few scenes. We then had started to clean Abbys room which was used for the bedroom scene, but we only really had to clean the top area of the room (her bed, desk, nightstand, stuff on her bed) so it wouldn't show in the film. We didn't film the floor area so that didn't need to be cleaned or cleared. After that, we had started on Abby's bruises which were quite hard to make but we got the hand of it. We had to take pictures of these to ensure that when we would film again she would have the same bruises on her legs and arms again. We then set up out area, with the lights, and microphone being held, and shot out the first few scenes. On these days we had only filmed the bedroom scenes and bathroom scenes (the house bathroom).  We had filmed the bedroom scenes followed by the bathroom ones. The first scene was the hardest to film and quite funny, too because I had to stand over Abby to get the overhead shot of her being filmed. 

Since I am a director I think the most hardest scenes to film were the overhead one and the scene of trying to follow Abby while walking. It was because we had a tripod that did not roll so it was difficult to follow her walking without the camera shaking, Haaniya also couldn't make it this day because of not being able to get a ride to take her. So she couldn't hold the camera for me to make it stay still. We plan to shoot this the remaining time of this week and the following week since we do not believe it is enough time. The sound and video were equally as hard to get, from a previous blog post I mentioned that we had Tri Le helping us. He has been helping a lot with microphones and capturing specific sounds that we need. As iI said before, I am director and filming has honestly been more fun than work. We don't need any reshoots and we made sure that we didn't from how much work is put in for one scene since we need to do Abby's bruising makeup and make sure the area surrounding is quiet (and when in a school it's hard). Overall shooting went great but I expect for us to get better.