Filming blog: opening scene

This weekend my group and I got together like I discussed last blog. We met up at 1pm at one of our group members Gavin’s house. His house is located about 20-30 minutes away from all of our other group members houses. Unfortunately all of us were later in our arrival time. This means we didn’t all congregate until 2pm. Once we were all together we discussed our plan. The plan for filming that I discussed last blog was that we would film it all in two locations. One location would have a minority of the scenes while the other one would have only once scene filmed in it. We decided to start filming the opening scene. We only ran into one issue...our actors didn’t show up. We had texted actors to see their availability but none of them responded. So we decided to change the characters but not the plot.  The minor change we made was the gender of the character and her relative. The teenager Alex, is now a boy. The aunt, is an uncle, played by one of Gavin’s neighbors. Gavin is now playing Alex. Our group did run into some technical issues as well. We struggled with camera shots without a tripod. Because we didn’t have professional equipment we ended up wasting time on how to film a realistic P.O.V. shot. So my group decided to check out a camera in class today in the hopes it will make filming after our open ending scene easier. Attached is a screenshot from the footage of our opening scene.