Filming: The End

Today my group members and I completed our filming. All of us, with this exception of one, went to Lauren’s house to continue and finish filming. We had to finish 7 more scenes. These scenes were the hallway scene, the bedroom scene, the stairs scene, the dinner scene, and the trash can scene. Unfortunately, we could not get to shoot the proposal scene. For the scenes that were shot we finished shooting them all, but there were a few problems along the way. One problem was that we were behind schedule on this day. This means that the scenes that we filmed today were rushed. A scene that was really affected by this was the last scene, the bedroom scene. The main actors that were present, Aaliyah and Taliyah, had to leave once their ride came for them. This scene didn’t even get finished and was left out of the movie. We also didn’t have some of the necessary props to film in some scenes. We worked around not having these props, but they would’ve made the ambiance of the movie more impactful or expressed. Another problem was that we were missing the necessary actors. Bobby wasn’t available so we couldn’t do the proposal scene, and as I previously mentioned Aaliyah and Taliyah has to leave before we could finish the last scene. The final snag during filming was that we had to do many takes of the same scene. We did this because the actor(s) didn’t act out the scene the way that’s in the storyboard, or how we pictured it in our minds. To do all of these takes took about 30 minutes to 1 hour of our time. After we all went home Lauren began to edit, and ran into another problem. The film was too short. Upon hearing this news, my group members and I gave her tips and ideas to make the film longer and they worked. Unfortunately, our film didn’t turn out the way we envisioned, but we plan on fixing that during reshoots.