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Reshooting

    Today, on March 09, 2022, we reshot our scenes for our film "Search" and fortunately, it was a huge success. We had enough people that it wasn't a problem looking for people to fill up the conversation, and were more prepared this time as opposed to last time, already having gone through the filming process once before, and having written down notes of aspects of our previous film to be improved as well as also having down certain pieces of dialogue to help the conversation along.

    We met up after school earlier today in our school's parking lot to film and got a total of seven people to come: Alejandro and I, who are a part of the media studies class itself, as well as actors Daniel Aldana (the driver), Alexander Guerrero, Noah Bloomfield, Hugo Montserrate, and Jason Jimenez. So many people came that we didn't even get to act ourselves because we couldn't fit everyone in the car. Maybe is the way it's supposed to be, professionals don't act in their own movies much, do they? Another advantage of this, though, is that Alejandro was able to completely dedicate his energy to focusing on the camera movements (a specialty of his), and I was available there to take pictures of the filming itself. You may notice that Arturo's name is missing, but unfortunately, he wasn't able to attend this session.

    The shooting for all the scenes went over well and we all reviewed the footage together right after filming, checking for obvious errors. We didn't see much, except that the first scene, second scene, and third scene are all done much better. We also ended up adding a fourth scene in between the third scene and the final scene that we thought would work better for continuity reasons. It consists of the driver getting up and looking through every part of his car for the missing passengers (this is right after he stops driving and before he has a mental breakdown). There will be more on that specific addition later on, but overall, we think that this will improve our film's watchability and improve its quality overall. The actors also described it as a positive experience to participate in the filming session. Here are some photos we took of the shooting session:

Just before shooting, you can see everyone in their appropriate costuming


Alejandro shoots the first scene.

The car drives around as the second scene is being recorded. Alejandro and I are watching from afar.
Daniel and Alejandro conduct the fourth scene.

    We're excited to keep you all updated with further developments in this project!

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