Production - How film Day Went

 Introduction 

Hello and Welcome back, today me and my partner and did all of our filming and I’m gonna tell you how that went in order of our original timeline to make some comparisons between how we planned the day would go vs what really happened. Spoiler alert a lot went wrong but we overcame.

What Happened Before Shooting

- 6:00am to 7:00am - We got ready for school and we made sure we had our equipment ready and saved pictures of our script and storyboards, I also brought my portable charger just in case and packed what I needed for school. I confirmed with our Veronica but then spoke to my partner who informed us we had lost our coach, main Character Emily, and we weren’t able to get any young background characters. We lost them to different reasons like their parents changed their mind about missing school or they did or their plans changed.

This is the main issue we had to overcome since our cast is obviously important for the film. I immediately started thinking of solution for our lack of actors and I decided we should just replace our actors in the film. Noemy, my partner is already a gymnast so we decided to use her as the main character.

As for the coach, I stepped in for the role which worked out great except for two things, I had a bit more experience with the equipment so I was supposed to be the camera lady, and also me and my partner could not be on screen at the same time which we would be in the second scene, we overcame this issue later on by using my mother as a double on screen since her back would be to the camera anyways and we just changed costumes with her. We also made my mom sort of angle her face away from the camera at times.

- 7:00am to 11:45am - We attended school as normal and both arrived at the gym semi on time, my partner was on time but I was about five minutes late due to doing my hair and makeup in the car since I originally wasn’t gonna be in the film I didn’t do it earlier.

Filming At The Gym And Car

- 12:00pm to 1:30pm - With our new plan, we moved around some mats and used my mom in my hoodie to be Emily’s coach. My partner did a great job as Emily which didn’t come as a surprise since she is a gifted gymnast and theater student. Later in the second scene we used my mom as Emily as well but putting her hair in a bun and having her change costumes with Noemy. Below are some pictures from our filming where if you look closely you can spot my mother as the double by her hair color that is different from mines and  Noemy’s because it’s more blonde.

- 1:30pm to 1:55pm - We ate lunch as originally planned.

- 1:55pm to 2:50pm - We continued filming scene two since we didn’t have our young Emily for scene 1 and we took longer then expected on the first scene since we had to use a double and learn our lines since we hadn’t planned to be in the film. We finish filming scene 2 and clean up/ put back what we used so we can go film our third scene and return later for scene 1 with permission. 

We then looked over what we had of filming like shots and favorited the best takes. Then we went outside to film the shot of the car pulling out of the parking lot.

- 2:50pm to 4:00pm - We practiced car scene lines and then filmed our scene. This scene was the smoothest and easiest to film out of the three. The we returned to the gym to meet with our actor Gaby and her mom. She was a bit nervous at first so we talked with her and Noemy hula hooped with her to get her happy and relaxed for the scene. The lighting was great and so was Gaby so it went very well.

This finally concluded our filming so we looked over the shots and the high fives before parting ways like planned.

Conclusion 

As you likely noted, most things that went wrong were before filming even started, the actual filming and using our equipment went pretty smoothly and I’m proud of how me and my partner were able to overcome the issues that came up today. Next for us is editing this all together so see next time and thank you fore reading.