Beginning to Film the Final Task

     Over the weekend, we were able to start filming the final task. To prepare, I cleaned my house and got dressed in my outfit. Our house has been a tad bit ready, but I just moved a few things around and made sure that my house, our filming location, was decently clean. I then went outside to see if my groupmates had arrived yet. When they did so, we decided which scenes to film since there were a few complications that occurred that day. One of my groupmates, Juanita, who is an actor, forgot their clothes and it was also pretty bright outside. Because Juanita forgot her clothes, we could not film the outside scenes where the girl is walking outside meeting her neighbor. The brightness outside also led to us deciding that we could not film the scenes my mother acts in, since we thought that darkness would fit what was occurring within those scenes. These two factors caused us to film scene 8 and part of scene 9. 

    When acting within our film, I ran into a bit of trouble. We began the filming process at the scene where the girl goes inside her house after talking to her neighbor. However, we started filming at the point where the girl is inside her house and closing the door to her home (page 8, box 4 on the storyboard). Our entire opening film is also supposed to be serious, but whenever I opened the door, I found myself laughing. Overall, that scene took a bit longer than expected, as a result of my laughing, but we still finished it when I got my act together. The rest of the filming process was smooth and we would make sure that we were all six feet apart. We did a few different takes when we got to the part where the girl enters the kitchen. We wanted to have options just in case we didn't like how our original idea for that scene turned out. My acting in these scenes was normal, and these last few takes flew by (timewise). However, we decided not to finish scene 9 because we had not filmed scenes 1-4 yet, where the mother would write the letter. Within scene 9 the girl is supposed to find the letter her mother wrote, but since we did not have my mother write it yet, we could not film the last part of that scene. This led to us stopping at the point where the girl gets carrots from the fridge. Overall, the filming process went pretty smooth and was faster than expected.