Filming Blog: Filming the Kidnapping Scene

On Tuesday, February 25th, my group and started the filming process for our movie. After school we all went to eat at iHop and we got free pancakes since it was National Pancakes Day. We didn't just eat and hung out, we also talked a lot about the plan for the day for example what we were going to start recording from and all the props we needed to in order to make our film more realistic and more professional. After eating at iHop we drove to the park which was pretty close to the iHop. The weather was perfect yesterday, it was a very nice sunny day which helped us having an excellent lighting for our film. As soon as we got to the park we took and establishing shot that will probably be the first scene of the flashback. We started having a little bit of trouble when we started acting because at first we would always start laughing and messing around. I am not the director of our film but I am the leader of the group so I needed to get everyone to work on it and be serious. 

We finally started working seriously after we had some fun and we recorded most of it. We made a little campfire where we toasted the marshmallows and recorded the scene that we all hang out around the fire and talk. We had to retake this scene a couple of times because the fire kept turning off. I took care of it and took some branches and poured some more rubbing alcohol that we had just bought. After we were done recording this scene we started recording the kidnapping scene and it came up pretty good. We just needed to record it a few times to make sure everything was good and there weren't any mistakes. For example in the first kidnapping shot we took, everything seemed perfect but when we rewatched it you could hear some of us talking in the background. We finished basically most of it, we were just missing a scene, but we ran out of time because it got dark outside and the shots started looking bad so we just decided to call it a day, we will go back to finish it on Friday and we'll make sure to wear the same clothes and have the same things as last time. We had something we had to change from our original plan that we wrote down in the story board and that was the amount of people we brought to help us record and to be part of our film. We originally thought we were going to have around ten people coming but only six ended up coming which actually was better because it was easier to keep under control and it was also easier to stay focused.