Shooting process

 Now, one thing I wanted to point out is that the shooting process had wayyy more bumps than I thought and every time we encountered one we said "Oh great, we can put this in our blogs" but if I wrote all of them, this blog would be as big as a harry potter book, so I'm only gonna write a few. We got to Mia's house a little late, around 5:30, and spent the first hour  or so just scoping it out, cooking up a few ideas, and testing out the drone. In this time we also decided to film the outside parts first, then move to the inside of the house.

Now here came the first problem, the drone recording. so first we just wanted to video off the drone, a higher quality than the last one that we tried out, but it still wasn't too good and while we tried to tape a phone to it, it wouldn't fly with all the weight. Luckily, Nico just didn't feel taking the L and fearlessly climbed up a tree to get this beautiful, birds eye view shot of a Sebas' car going by. Here is the video pre-edit, and while it might not look like much, this is perfect and maybe in my next blog post tomorrow you can see it after the editing.

Now, I don't want to make this too long of a read, but another problem we worked through was the time of day. We started recording at around dusk as we thought that was the best time but recording took a little too long and as we finished, it was full on night so we had to rerecord ALL of the early scenes which in reality wasn't too too annoying as it was mainly the scenes inside the car which only needed Nico and Sebas so they could do those while me and Mia set up the inside of the house like the table and explain to her family how the acting was going to go as they were also part of it.

And if it wasn't enough, if you see that second paragraph, I said we used Sebas' car to record but we were first going to use Nico's. Sadly, it broke down, I'm not sure if it was the engine or the battery or whatever as we asked around the neighborhood for those car cables but even after we connected them to a separate car, it didn't work and he had to come back to her house very late at night to pick it up. I have no idea how he made it work but happy he did! Here is a photo from when we were trying to fix it.