Filming!

     Now with my screenplay handled, I decided to begin filming what I could for the second scene of my film opening. To be quite honest, the scheduling conflicts really threw me for a loop and I faced way more issues than I had anticipated. To begin, my main actress caught a sickness that has been going around school so her parents wouldn't let her out. This highly stressed me out as she is the character that leads both scenes and I've already had to come to terms with the fact I'll have to wait until next week to film the first scene in the auditorium as the amazing AMT production of 'Beetlejuice' would be doing rehearsals each day this week. But if there's one thing I've learned in my high school academic career, especially when working on projects where you're dependent on others, is that you have to improvise, persevere, and handle big business.

    I couldn't afford to recast my friend as I know that she's the best for the job and it would be a major continuity error if I have one friend play her this week, and then my other friend play her the following week when her and the auditorium are finally available.

    As much as it genuinely broke my heart because it would have been lightyears easier for me and my schedule to film now, I can't blame my friend for catching a sickness and not being allowed out because lord knows how hypocritical that would be coming from me, someone who legitimately gets sick 2 times a month. 

    To try to circumvent this issue, I decided to film some reaction shots of one of my characters, Sara Fischer during scene #2. I'll use this as b-roll and stitch it into my final product to try and break up the shots more so it doesn't feel so static and lifeless.

Here are some captures from what I was able to film today!