The Beginning of Filming

    Sunday was the fist date of filming for the movie. My group members met up with me at my house for filming. Rashawn brought his film equipment and a plan for each shot for the day. The plan was to record for the first scene of James waking up for school, and the scene of him walking to the school bus. I agreed that I would be the actor for James. Rashawn and Hadar worked on camera crew in order to set up the different types of shots.

    We started by filming the scenes inside of the house. Rashawn and Hadar had me acting out a normal daily routine. Getting out of bed, brushing my teeth, and leaving the house. Each scene they had me act out an almost comedic bad luck scenario. An example would be that when I was "brushing my teeth" the faucet wouldn't work. They had me act out trying to turn the faucet on and off to try and fix it. But in the end I give up and just walk away. 

    After we filmed the scenes in the house we went outside. Outside I started to act out James going to the bus stop. The easiest part of filming on Sunday was the outside shots. All I had to do was walk on the sidewalk, and sit down on a bench and act impatient. Although it was the easiest it definitely took the longest. There were all sorts of different angles that the camera had to be in. So I had to act out the same shot about 5 or 6 times to get each shot and fix any mistakes in my acting.

    Those were the last shots that I acted out on Sunday. Overall I had a fun time during the filming session. The next filming session is going to be on Tuesday, and Rashawn and Hadar will be acting alongside me on that day.




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