Production Check 2

Foremost, we were able to get a replacement for the actress, which is exciting since Ariel is also someone who acts in plays and has experience. We were all really pleased with her performance during the two scenes we shot on Friday, Nov. 11. So far, we have shot the scene with June driving after the conversation with her mother and the scene between June and Nora in the kitchen.

During our time filming, we did face some small troubles but we were willing to be flexible in making changes, so it didn't end up being a major problems. A few of the things we had to overcome was the fact that the microphone reciever wasn't charged, so Shay couldn't record the car sounds that day. We tried to charge it with the time we had as we were shooting a different scene, but it didn't charge enough for us to be able to choose it. Fortunately, we could still record with the regular boom mic, so we just used that for the kitchen scene and decided to record the car sounds later. We also had to be creative in filming the car scene since this wasn't anything we had practice with. We did what was within our means by filming a long shot on a hill, and this actually came out really well given the sun was positioned well in the shot. For the interior car shots, Ali sat in the passenger seat and I sat in the back seat to film June's close ups. We generally liked how these came out, but felt that we might need something more.

With the challenges we faced with this first shoot, I anticipate that there will be many more in our future sessions and that we need to continue being flexible to finish our project. I really enjoy making changes as necessary, instead of trying to struggle to get everything as we initially wanted because I like seeing the project evolve into something more practical and genuine than a simple idea.

One of my concerns for the future scenes is shooting the scene in which both June and Jonah are both in two different cars. We had difficulty shooting with just one, so I'm wondering if it will even be possible for us to get a genuine-looking scene. We may either need to edit that scene or research ways to film it. Other than that, I am excited to see the rest of the film come together.