FILMING DAY!

Hello guys! We finally filmed today!😁😝😍

We wanted to film in the darkroom in the school that they use to develop photographs for the photography class for the scene of the main character in her "lair" as she contemplates her victims. Alexia was able to get permission to use the room so we scheduled to film there after school on Friday. We prepared everything for the film, buying the necessary materials and printing the pictures of the "victims".

Since we both have 8th-hour privilege, we came back to school with all the materials and equipment and met with our friend, Valentina, who would be our actress. The darkroom was really cool and was exactly what we were looking for. We instantly got to work since we still had the date scene to film that same day. I set up the camera and the lights while Alexia painted Valentina's nails red since it's the signature feature of the character. We then hung the pictures on a red string with clothing pins, to recreate the look of a "lair".

As we filmed, we focussed on the shots, movements, and lighting to then incorporate mise-en-scene. We did many different shots and movements to have extra footage to have more flexibility when editing, especially with the types of cuts we will do. We also kept in mind how it will look together to stay on track on how the whole film is supposed to look like.

After we finished filming in school, we met with my friend Francisco in the town center to film the scene of their date. We were given permission to film outside of a restaurant that has cafe-like tables that were perfect for our scene. We were able to finish filming by 6:30, right before the sunset. We managed to film everything in one day, for a total of 4 hours, which is very alleviating since now we have three weeks to edit and put together our film opening.😊