Blog 23: Day 1 of Shooting

    

   The Diary 

Ep1: First day of  Shooting 

    FINALLY!!! Ooooops... Intro first. HEY GUYS!!! I am so EXCITED to talk about our first day of filming. There's a lot of tea to spill so let's boil this up. 

        Breakfast: 

    First of all, we did not get into filming right away. It's the 3rd of January, the last day of our winter break and we decided to had some fun but also get the filming intact. Our crew decided to goes out for breakfast, technically it was brunch. We planned to get there around 10:30, however we arrived at Ihop around 11:30 (we couldn't wake up). I haven't had Ihop in 5 years, making it's my first time back. It didn't go that well... There was some incidents happened in the kitchen and delayed our food for an hour. In spite of that, we just "yap" the whole time and discussed about the filming. Addition to the situation, I left the birthday cake at home, unfortunately, so I had to make my way home to grab it. If this wasn't bad enough, I left my Stanley cup at the shop and somebody took it.... 

    I was definitely paranoid but as an optimistic person, I tried to maintained my professionalism and the filming came out great. 

        Gigi's house:

     I arrived around 1pm and that's when everyone was ready together. Except one of our guest—Kamilah— was there with us since the beginning. 

    The very first scene was modified, it came up to the realization of not having an actual table calendar, we had to drew a calendar on board right on spot. Therefore, we also switched up the angle from how it looks like in the Storyboarding for Scene 1. Besides, everything stayed the same except Scene 16 was begin as Gigi take the cake from the counter and pass by grabbing the family picture to the table. The reason why we added the family picture detail was to put the audience on spot through the greater emphasis on her family. This set an overwhelm mood and would capture further attention from the audience. 

    On the 20th of January, we will host the 2nd day of shooting. The ideal was to add some further scene that directly drive the clues of her mother passed away. We want the film to convey the emotions and deep stage of our main character. Lastly, some of the scene was suffered from uncontrollable noises. Therefore, we will mute the original sounds and substitute it using sounds from the Foley stage. 

     

P/s: We finished the more than half of the Chocolate cake, it was DELICIOUSS!!!