Filming Blog: First Day of Filming

Although my group members and I had many set backs, we finally began to film today. After school two of my group members, Aaliyah and Lauren, and I filmed one of our scenes today. We did this with the help of two of our friends Taliyah and Bobby. The scene that we filmed took place on the beach. The beach we went to was the one closest to our school: Fort Lauderdale Beach. After school ended Lauren’s mother picked us up and took us to the beach. Once we arrived at the beach, Lauren and I set up the camera and tripod in the perfect spot to begin filming. This segment of the scene was an establishing shot of the beach. While we were doing this, Aaliyah, Taliyah, and Bobby we’re preparing themselves for the scene. After this was  done, Lauren took a picture of the actors in two different positions. One position was the soon to be husband (Bobby) with his arms around both girls. The other position was the fiancés (Aaliyah and Bobby) posing as a couple while the bad sister (Taliyah) was off to the side doing something fun. In both pictures the actors were made to look like they were enjoying themselves. Afterwards, we took the camera off of the tripod and decided to do a hand-held shot. The person shooting with the camera was me. Once I had the camera in my hand, I began to film the actors walking along the beach. There were two different takes of this scene. In the first take the actors were taking a leisurely stroll alongside the beach shore side by side. In the second take the happy couple was walking together, holding hands, and conversing with each other while the bad sister was enviously watching them from behind. Once we did this we left the beach and headed to Lauren’s house. Unfortunately, Aaliyah and Taliyah has to leave early so we couldn’t film the rest of our scenes, but we were just greatfull to finally start filming. Anishkaneel also could not make it due to important personal reasons. Though, my group members and I, along with the two other actors, made a plan to continue and end filming Saturday morning.