Filming Scenes 6 & 7

     This past weekend, my group decided to film scenes six and seven. Although the process was a positive experience, it started off on a rough note. I had set my alarm to wake up an hour before my groupmates were scheduled to arrive at my house, since we decided to film in the morning, and ended up waking up 20 minutes before they were to arrive at my house. Luckily, one of my groupmates was late, so I was not too behind, but it would have been better if I woke up on time so that I felt more prepared. While my groupmate, Juanita. was still driving over to my house, I decided to ask my mother for a part of the costume, gardening tools, for her role. We were not able to find anything, but it was fine since we ended up finding items later. When Juanita finally arrived at my house, we began by filming the first shot, which was an establishing shot of my house. Before this was done, however, I saw Juanita's outfit and decided to spruce it up and look more like she was older by lending her sandals. I also gave her an apron and scissors later in the day so that she would look more like she was gardening. When we began, we filmed with a selfie-stick that I had brought just in case we needed it. We used this contraption for the rest of the filming process for these two scenes and it ended up working very well, better than if we were using our hands. The second shot was done with a lot of discussion, since we were not sure how to film this shot and the following two shots. It took about an hour to figure this out, and was only done after we refilmed the first shot, since I had given Juanita the apron after we had filmed the first shot. After we had figured out how to film those first few shots, the process went pretty quickly, with a few slip ups, but did not take much time after those shots were filmed. Once we had finished, I gave my groupmates water, since it was pretty hot out in jeans, and cleaned up once they left.

    We also decided to change several shots. The first shot, which was supposed to be of me, is now of Juanita and only shows my house, not three houses. Within the second shot I was supposed to have my head down and arms crossed, but in the new version I am walking regularly and then stumble. The stumble is also a new addition to the opening sequence. The third shot was deleted as well. The neighbor is not within the fourth shot and there is a cowboy shot of the girl hiding from the neighbor instead. The fifth shot was changed from a mid-shot to an over the shoulder shot of the neighbor. However, it is hard to describe what kind of shot it is exactly since the cameraman steps out to reveal the neighbor with an over-the-shoulder shot and almost uses a tracking movement to do so. The tenth shot was changed from a cowboy shot to to a mid-shot. To be clear, this shot occurs when the girl is walking to her house, about to enter it and saying bye to her neighbor. Lastly, the eleventh shot, where the neighbor is waving to the girl, was changed from a mid-shot to a cowboy shot.