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Preparing for the first day of filming

Miramar Regional Park, where we plan to film

    Right now, our plan is that our first day of filming will be on Saturday: February 26, 2022. While this is a little bit later than it should be, this was the first available day that we were able to get everyone else we'll be filming with onboard and available. At least, that's the plan, we'll try to get six people. This should make things easy and natural to create, especially with our four major scenes, and also in adding diegetic background ambient noise that can both sound like it fills up the room while also being understandable.

    Our location of filming is going to be Miramar Regional Park, which is an easily accessible area near the school. I myself live close enough that I can reach it on foot. Right now, the plan doesn't call for leaving the park, but if we find a good place with an underpass outside the park (especially since the park doesn't have one), we might travel to it in order to get the feeling of that.

    For preparation, we all plan to wear dark clothing except for the person who'll be driving the car, who'll wear white, to symbolize survival (as was further expounded on in the Costuming blog post). We don't currently expect filming will take very long, especially with our thorough storyboard, and we also don't expect that it'll take more than one session to get all of our video clips to be used. Hopefully this will leave much time for us to edit, tweak, and perfect our upcoming film.

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