This past Wednesday we started our filming process and I can't say that it all went according to our plans...
Our morning started at 10:30 am at the Gas station we had planned to film at originally. Me and Violette met there and as we were getting set up to create our establishing shot of the store when the cashier came out to tell us that we could not record here because it was a corporate owned Gas station which didn't allow any picture or video to be taken. We were not expecting this, so we felt a little lost on what to do next, but thankfully the lady was nice enough to tell us of some nearby stations that might let us record. However, we decided to go to a gas station that was close to the restaurant my friend works at, because as I mentioned in the last blog, we were planning to record our bathroom scenes there. When we got there, we learned from our past mistake of not asking prior to recording and went in to ask the cashier if it was okay. He was nice enough to allow us to record as long as it didn't take too long; safe to say we felt really relieved. So we got to work.
Everything was going pretty well with our recording. The gas station turned out to match our vision even better than the last one and the shots were looking really nice as well, but at this point my friend who was going to let us record at her work's bathroom told me she wasn't working until later in the afternoon and neither me or Violette could meet at that time, soooo we were left with no bathroom. Again, this knocked us off course but we decided to keep filming the gas station scenes and then figure out the bathroom situation. This is when something great happened. We were filming Sienna (our actress) walking toward the gas station's bathroom to then conclude our gas station shots and figure out were we would go now and she opened the door to a GREAT bathroom for our opening. My friend's bathroom might've been a little bigger and easier to film at, but this one was also pretty good, so we decided to stay here.
The rest of our filming went pretty smoothly. Thankfully the gas station wasn't too busy at this time and we weren't bothered in the bathroom. However, we did have to make some other changes to our plans along the way. As i had talked about in prior posts, we were planning on showing our main character dyeing her hair as part of her change-of-look sequence and we were going to make our own "bleach" for it to look real on camera. When we got to this part of the process we found that it would be extremely messy to make this mixture in this gas station bathroom and putting it on Sienna hair would probably make her really uncomfortable for the rest of the filming. We decided to instead make our character purposely put a wig on instead of cutting and dyeing her hair. We thought that this was both simpler and also made sense with the story, since our character wanted to get out as fast as possible and throwing a wig on was a fast way to change the look of your hair. We tried it this way and it actually turned out looking pretty good. This decision will also allow us to have more time within the 2 minute limit to fit all of the other shots we think are essential to include.
Our last challenge was the fact that we had to record scenes of Sienna driving, but she isn't a very experienced driver. We decided to go to Violette's neighborhood in order to record these scenes because it is way less populated than a normal street and would allow her to drive slowly.
Our first filming day was not what we'd imagine, but I would say it was pretty successful considering everything and I'm very excited to keep working on this.
Here are some behind-the-scenes shots ;)
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