Production blog

 Since my group wasn’t able to film this week, we mainly focused on researching our genre more. I also did some scene selection from the storyboard because I knew that all of the scenes wouldn’t make it into the final product. Acting was definitely something that kept coming up in discussions. None of us have much acting experience so we were worried about scenes that may be harder to act out. For example, when Jade starts crying after realizing their mom isn’t home. It may not seem like a big deal, but it could be harder to “fake cry” for that scene. Therefore, we had to decide whether to remove that scene or to change it. Since that scene was a bit more important because it introduces the actual problem of the story, we decided to change the approach. Instead of crying and stating that “she’s gone”, Jade would have to run down and ask her siblings if they knew where their mother was.

We decided that on our first filming day, we’ll get as much done as possible. We wanted to not have to worry about how much time we would have left for reshoots and editing. We also figure that if one person wasn’t available for one day, we would shoot all of the scenes that didn’t include that person. This way we wouldn’t have to wait until everyone is available until we get to the scenes that do feature all of the characters. 

So far, those have been the only things we could work on for now. We know that there are definitely more things that we could take into consideration before filming. However, we haven’t been able to realize what those things are. We know though, that when we do start filming, all sorts of new ideas will start popping up. In the end we might have to change a lot more than we anticipated, but we are willing to do what we have to to make sure our project is completed well. Each of us, including Adriana who isn’t in the Media Studies class, understanding how important this project is. So we have made up our minds to do our best in the ways we can.