📸 20. Shooting 📸

         

        Welcome to my first blog post about filming our film opener, "Chasing Perfection"!!!!!! It's finally in the works, and Rebecca and I have been working pretty hard to get this film up to our standards. While I'm making this blog post on February 10th, we actually started filming on January 31st (about a week & a half ago). I COMPLETELY underestimated the amount of time it would take to film... I expected to stay at Rebecca's house filming for like 1-2 hours on a Tuesday night, but we stayed filming for like 4+ hours.

        After those 4 hours of filming, our scenes (we managed to film like 8 shots that day) ended up being 30 SECONDS LONG WHEN WE FINISHED EDITING & SHORTENING THEM. 30 SECONDS LONG. So yeah, definitely did not think it would be so lengthy. But I genuinely think those hours were worth it, but most of it consisted of refilming the same shots, changing the lighting, figuring out the angles we wanted to film from, the costuming, and seeing how everything would flow smoothy. 

Picture of the costuming we're using in the film + the messy room (I KNOW IT LOOKS A TAD BIT WONKY BUT I PROMISE IT LOOKS GOOD FOR OUR FILM)

        Anyways, while our storyboard helped out so much, we actually ended up changing some shots since they were slightly impractical and would require wayyyyy too much reshooting and the logistics would just be a bit too complex. For example, in our original storyboard (shot #7), we included a scene where our main character would chuck a shoe at her wall out of frustration, but when we attempted to film it, I just told Rebecca that realistically I don't think it would be doable and it would look a little bit goofy, so we just scrapped it and replaced it with something else.

As you can see with all the photos that I've included so far from the film opener, our lighting is mostly on the saturated side (and this is without any sort of editing) with lots of blue, pink, and purple hues. As far as  the sound and video quality, I think it captured exactly what we were hoping - a nice focus of the moody lighting, mise en scene, and some fitting diegetic sound (rustling bed sheets, alarm clock sounding off, jeans rustling). Later on, in the post-production stage with in-depth editing, we'll definitely add in some non-diegetic sound such as music to intensify the overall atmosphere and mood, rather than having some awkward silence.