Another day of filming, another day of acting

               On January 25, I started to film the friend and the daughter scenes. I filmed these in a different room of my house. It was during the day time. Also, I cut the scene where the friend picks her up from the park. It took up too much time. Plus, that scene had no effect on the story plot. This scene took many takes. Both actors kept messing up. We messed up so much that we couldn’t even edit the mess ups out. Therefore, we had to keep filming the scenes over until we got it right. It didn’t take long though. After the third take, we stopped messing up. Our final and last take was the fourth one and we didn’t mess up as much . We messed up a little bit but it was fixable by editing those scenes. The filming that day took 20 minutes. This was definitely the longest time I spent filming throughout this whole project. Since it was also the last I had to make sure the short film with all the scene was enough time. I started to just put clips in this editing software called iMovie. I didn’t cut or trim anything, it was just to see an estimate of the time. The times was about 9 minutes with all the scenes not edited to perfection yet so I figured that’ll be enough time once edited.



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