1st Day of Shooting

On our first day of shooting, we had a very limited time to record which included us setting up and getting into our outfits. School ended at 2:40 and we had to finish our filming by 3:30. It was not an optimal situation to be put into but we had to make it work.

Once school ended, I got changed as quickly as I could and arrived at where we would be shooting. It was our school's piano room which is very obvious from the way things are set up so I would have to remember this fact when introducing the location in editing. There was no way to act like it was some other location so I would just have to state it as it is. 

Shot we took that had non-optimal lighting and didn't turn out how we wanted

We had to focus on setting the room up the way we wanted it to as well which took up more time. Once it came time to finally start shooting, we had about 45 minutes left which realistically wasn't a lot of time. We had 4 shots planned for the day and were only able to effectively shoot 2. The entire process of being in the film was new to me so it took me some time to really get into my character but that cost us time we could've used to film other scenes.

I was mostly worried about being able to fit the schedule we had planned. The shots we did get weren't up to the proper quality we wanted and didn't quite turn out the way we envisioned them. However, we did find some ideas that we could use on the next shooting day and understood what each shooting day would generally be like.

Another shot we took that didn't turn out how we envisioned

After filming ended for the day, I better understood that every day of shooting doesn't necessarily mean we will have the right shots or takes that are going to be used for the film. With a time constraint like this, we really couldn't do many shots or even many takes to create our ideal scenes. Instead of getting usable footage, we got a better idea of how we wanted specific shots to be filmed. We got to see what elements we liked such as specific angles, what was left in the frame, and camera movement in order to  make our shots look the best and match our vision,

For me specifically, I was able to find out the specific aspects of my character such as facial expressions and hand movements. As the actor for Detective B, I needed to make sure I would match the traits of the character and this shooting day helped me refine my behaviors.