Production Blog: Beginning to Film

 To begin the full group filming process everyone met up at Dania Pointe as planned. I coordinated schedules and times to accommodate everyone. Over the weekend on Saturday we all showed up at 11:00am. For today I decided to work on the second scene. The second scene consists of a split screen of the varying perspective of one side eating alone and one side eating with friends. So to set up I first had to find 2 separate areas of Dania Pointe to film. I walked around for about an hour scouting out filming locations. The first place I saw was a long strip of fake grass with a lot of tables around. I thought it would be a good place because it had a nice environment and background. The next area I found was shadowed and isolated. I thought that it would be a good idea to have our solo actor film there. I then walked around and found a couple of other spots but ultimately decided on the first two I found. After this I brought in the actors for the group scene. They all went and got ice cream to use as props for this scene. I directed them to just have a casual conversation and make sure to appear happy and excited. I took about 3 takes so I'd have something to work with when editing and then moved on. I then took my solo actor and had her go to the isolated table and eat alone. I told her to just take slow occasional bites of ice cream and try to portray a sad emotion through body language and facial expressions. After I got multiple takes of that scene too it was already late in the day. Ultimately we decided to come back another day to film the final 2 scenes.

(This image shows the area where we filmed for the first group.)