Production Blog: First Day of filming

Welcome everyone and I hope you all had a great day. In my last blog, I talked about my partner and I make some decisions to help prepare for the filming process. Just recently, Kendia just got a job, and as mentioned before we will most likely only be able to film during the weekends. If she has any days off during the week and we're not busy with school work then we can try and film. On our filming, I went over to Kendia's house afterschool. I can't drive myself around so I had to wait until my mom was let off of work so she could drop me off at her house. I also brought my sister along with me since she will be the one playing as the girl being kidnapped. Once we arrived we prepared our filming location which is outside the apartment building and inside Kendia's apartment. We recorded the first few scenes using Kendia's phone. We could have used my phone but her phone has better camera quality. Throughout the opening scene, my sister’s costume consists of pajamas and casual clothing appropriate for school. Kendia’s costume consists of black clothing such as a black shirt/hoodie, dark pants, and possibly a ski mask. Kendia did not buy the ski mask yet so if she does we will then add it to her costume. We started filming in the bedroom for the scene with the Kidnapper putting their weapons into their bag. For this scene, we waited a little later in the day as the sun goes down. That way the room would appear dark but not too dark for us to film. We used a  little lamp in the room as lighting for the scene. We mainly remained inside to film rather than go out to film the scenes outside the building. We hope to record those scenes by next week. Do know we are not perfect at acting, but Kendia and Chelsey tried their best. From time to time, we did laugh and joke around to brighten up the mood. My sister did laugh whenever the camera went very close to her face. As a result, we did have to do some retakes, and later when we make edits, we will choose the best one. Regardless of that, we were still able to get some filming done, which we are happy about. This weekend Kendia and I will not be able to film or meet up. The reason for this is that I will not be in Broward but Miami with family, so the following week or during spring break we might need to catch up on filming. See you all next time.