DAY ONE- Filming Behind the Scenes

Our group planning our shots int he cafeteria, while Marley B directs us on where to go to film our first shot!

Marley decided it would be best to begin with our shot lust plan, which was to record scenes of Mercedes (drinking from a sport's water bottle), venting her frustrations to Lizzy (Marley B, who was responsible for capturing this photo). In this image, I held my phone in a tripod to shoot the scene of Mercedes drinking from the water bottom, beginning up-close (extreme close-up) to then dollying out away from her bottle.

As the second scene of our shot list follows, we adhered to our initial plan which included Lexi M (as Mercedes) to drink from a water bottle before venting to her friend Lizzy (played by Marley B) about her concerns about Christine's intentions, and her speculation that she was responsible for her stolen bracelet.

This box of crayons not only highlighted Christine's hobbies related to art, but the bright colors was meant to contrast with the dark, ominous atmosphere of the room's lighting, and the tone of the shot.

In this shot, we referenced our instructors helpful suggestion to begin (with the box of crayons in the previous video above this one) to build suspense and create/ establish an eerie tone in our film before capturing Christine in this scene, which could help our audience to distinguish the character type and role in which Christine plays in our film. Ultimately, this clip adds depth the the extreme obsession Christine (played by me) has for her all-time crush Mercedes (played by Lexi M).

This scene highlights the anger issues that Christin has and our group began by doing a cowboy shot of Christine and Lizzy to establish the setting and dark tone of the scene, before having each character act and have a dialogue.

In previous classes, and blogs, leading up to our team's filming process, we remembered a tip that our instructor offered for the horror genre, which was that Dutch angles are intimidating to the eye and establishes dominance. Therefore, our group improvised to use this tactic to make Christine's character appear more domineering and dangerous.

In this final scene for the day, our team followed our shot list's plan to include Mercedes discovering the horrifying acts Christine was committing against her friend Lizzy. Our group improvised to use a tracking shot to build suspense leading up to that point.

REFLECTION

Overall, filming these scenes -that will later be added to out final product- was a pleasure, and our group was able to connect and blend our ideas, and improvisation of camera angels, and ideas for the acting in each scene, which improved our ability to collaborate and communicate constructively with each other by clearly expressing our visions for our film. To add, while the scenes above are not the the first scenes in our film, but are indeed the third and fourth scene, ensuring that these scene corresponded seamlessly was not an issue, due to the fact that we planned and envisioned our product in advance, knew what we had in mind and wanted to present in our film ahead of time. This resulted in a timely filming process, while helping us to have an idea on how to structure our future shots to capture for the first and second scenes we planned in our shot list.