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 Saturday, March 7 you’re supposed to be our first filming day. We were planning on filming about three scenes since it was going to be the first time. However we weren’t able to film on Saturday after all. Isabel had mandatory softball practice and a game today March 8th. Since we are using her house for the setting for most of the scenes, we couldn’t really film much. She also appears in most of the scenes as well with additional voice overs in some scenes. 

I also was not able to film because I was on a trip with my family. My mother’s birthday was on Saturday and we planned a trip for the Sunday right after. By the time we all finished what we were occupied with, it was too late to actually go to Isabel’s house to film. Adriana, who is one of our cast members also had softball practice with Isabel so she couldn’t shoot any individual scenes.

I decided to just do a little more research on lighting and camera angles for the film since I would be behind the camera. I noticed that our film doesn’t have many different angles, so I wanted to figure out if I could change some scenes to different angles. 

Throughout this week, we will all be busy with either extracurricular activities or just schoolwork. In the mean time we plan on development out movie’s plot and story for if we were to film a full movie. This helps us understand the dynamic each character would have with each other. We will develop their personalities and overall just try to do some excess planning before we start filming next week. We all have busy schedules so we are trying to work around them. But when we finally start filming we plan on spending a week or a little more to film all of our scenes excluding reshoots. We want to film as soon as possible because it only makes it more convenient for each of our families. We wouldn’t have to alter our schedules so much if we just filmed in one time span.



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