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Our first day of filming


A photo of Alejandro filming the driver's mental breakdown for the final scene of our movie

    Today, February 26, 2022, was our first day of filming. We met up at 3:00 PM at Miramar Regional Park to film there, and we immediately ran into a problem, which was that not everyone came. Two of the people were missing, having other more important things to attend to. We decided to start our filming with just four people. Alejandro was the main guy taking care of the camera movements and techniques, with his prior experience in this field.

    Our first scene went well, as Alejandro conducted his arc shot around the car going clockwise as we all got into the car. We didn't even have to try again. Our third scene of panning inside the car also went well, although not each shot was perfect, we made enough takes that we probably have a few good options that we can use. Last but not least, our final scene, which involved the driver of the car running outside and having a mental breakdown, was acted out pretty well by our driver. Alejandro filmed it, tilted the camera upward, and it all went well.

    We had a big issue when we tried to shoot our second scene, though. We didn't quite know what we'd say during the car ride. The scene was meant to be a conversation about a local disappearance, reaching over into the radio, turning it on and off, and all this would happen as the camera faced the car interior and its passengers. Although we didn't have any issue with the camera position itself, we had trouble making a natural conversation about disappearances, since we hadn't planned it. Another issue is that we sometimes made eye contact with the camera or broke character with our facial expressions. We tried about a few times over ten to fifteen minutes or so, and didn't get much usable footage. Because of this, we are thinking of having another filming day, except with more preparation.

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