Late Night Filming blog

Tonight, I began to film the second portion of my movie. We started with the scene of Myles being knocked out at his computer by the intruder (my dad). It was hard to get it just right so that my dad did not hit me, but it will look too real on camera. It took about 4 tries to get the angle just right. It was fun being dragged by my dad from my computer to my shower, but it was a little awkward. It was difficult to have my dad toss me in the shower in a way that I will be able to come back to for the next scene. I wanted to have my arm up on the shower bench like I had been thrown there. But he had to go in the shower to do that, so it did not work. We ended up having my legs stick out of the shower and the rest of my body on the floor. The scenes following these struggles to open the door and find a light switch Came out perfectly. They were even better than I imagined, it did not seem unnatural when we watched it back. After the entire chase section of my film, I had to do the scene where Myles gets pushed off the balcony. It was frustrating not to have my original plan. But I tried my best to work around this inconvenience. I was able to use the plant and the picture frame like I originally wanted to in my script. And switching rooms during the hallway chase worked but I realized that I had to redo one of my earlier takes because when I originally walked into my room it's a different room than I would have come out of. I finished filming the ending and went back to film the entrance into my room. I realized that it wasn't daytime so I would have to wait until tomorrow to read the film that scene. I uploaded all of my clips from my mother's phone to my computer. This was especially challenging because I couldn't email the files they were “too big”. So instead I texted them to my friend with a MacBook, and he was able to open our texts on his computer. He was then able to email them from his MacBook to my PC without a problem. They did not read that the files were too big. I began looking around for editing software to use for my film. I'm very excited to start that next step in my project.