DUN DUN DUN

    Let me set the scene. Sunday, February 23rd. It was a rather sunny day. Nothing particularly interesting happening, except for this. It was a four and a half hour ordeal with at least 45 minutes of that time allotted to the cast giggling out of control.  It was just four students, a light, a tripod, a camera and a dream.

    Going into the filming process, I have to admit I was shaking in my boots. Yes, we had dome filming days before for other projects that the process itself was not new to me, but it just felt like there was a lot riding on this one. It felt as if there could be no mistakes, no missteps without jeopardizing the outcome of the project. Safe to say I was stressed to the max. I was just happy I was not one of the actors.

 

    The day before filming, I had just finished staging the set, and below was the video I sent to me team to just check in and see if they would have me change anything. 

    

    Side note, I do not know why I was breathing so heavily in the video, but just ignore that. There are a few things that I will say as a follow up to this clip. First off, I did figure out what to do with the window, and by figuring it out I mean closing the blinds all the way. It was not exactly how I pictured it, but it was good enough to get the job done. Also, I said I might end up pitting a coffee table in the center, and that ended up being a total lie because I never did that. I almost did, but then I thought the table I had was too big and was do dark to make sense in the space. 

    Here is what the set ended up looking like on the day of. You can see how I dealt with the window into the backyard. One thing I was worried about was the window above the main one. As you can see in the picture the sun would shine through it directly onto the actors and we could not have that. It was directly on Rachel, our actress for Dr. Schultz, when we started filming, so we decided just to shoot Maiya, our Alice, until the sun went away (which it eventually did). 

    Strictly speaking of the set, we also ran into another issue. Since we were filming in my house, which is obviously not an office, I just make this side of the room look like the office, but there was no fourth wall. If you were facing the other direction, you would be met with the rest of the junk i had to take out of the room to make it transform into this office. So, when shooting it was a bit of a challenge to get all the necessary shots without getting the part of the room that was not staged. 

    We shot in this room for the majority of the day, but when we finished all the indoor scenes we had to get to the exterior. All the exterior shots took place in the parking lot of the therapist office, so for this setting we went (like I planned) to a medical plaza about five minutes from my home. With all the whirlwind of shooting (and a designated BTS picture taker who was not treat at their job) I did not get any photos of the location. But, in the next blog post I'll share a little bit of raw footage as a little treat.

    But for now, I will just share a silly little piece of BTS of the crew heading to the parking lot location, reminiscing about our music video project. 

   

And now for the movie quote of the day... (but it's from a tv show)

"I love you too Richard, but I love me more." - Samantha Jones, Sex and the City (1998-2004)