Finishing Fliming

  Today, my partner and I as well as our actors went to the park to film the project.  There was a lot we needed to film and, therefore, a lot to talk about.  The biggest dilemma we faced was that we wanted to film some of our scenes during the daylight and some of our scenes as the sun set.  So, in order to include everything, we all got there early at around 3:15.  First, Nicholas and drove around the park and reaffirmed our plans and shooting locations.  Then, after that, our actors came and we put up the tent we would.  At the last minute, I decided to bring a couple lawn chairs to make the campsite have more features.  After the campsite was set up, we started filming.  The first parts we filmed were the establishing shots of the car driving.  The shots were mostly still shots or pans that followed the car as it drove in front of a bland, rural-looking background.  We hoped the background would give away how secluded the forest was and convey a ambient feeling.  We took these first because we needed a lot of sunlight and because they would be appearing first chronologically.  After the car scenes, we started taking the campsite scenes.  Namely, the scenes where one character asks another to get firewood and the scene in which the characters decide to go look for the missing character.  We brainstormed different ways to film it and decided that keeping it simple would work out best.  The dialogue between the characters in the first scene mentioned was kept to a short shot and revers-shot conversation.  The other scene was kept even simpler.  It consisted of a still wide shot of the campsite only.  All the characters and dialogue in that scene happened within the still frame.  Even with the simple camera work, the scenes still took multiple tries each.  The takes were repeated mostly because of faulty acting or small oversights.  But, with each attempt, another problem was ironed out, making the final product better.