Things Gone Wrong


 Hey guys, so for this blog I'll tell you about our first days of filming and all the issues we ran into. To start it off we were supposed to film toward the beginning of winter break, but we didn't. We were all too busy working the first half and the second half I was out of town so nothing was possible. We began to get everything situated so we can begin filming as soon as I got back. Our first official day of filming started 17th of January. It was about three weeks after we got from break. All the days before we had to work and were flooded with work coming back into school from break. Our plan at first was to film a week before the 17th because we did have many off days in the week, but we couldn't get rides situated for those days. On top of that the locations weren't available to film on those days. Before we started filming we needed to make sure that everything was set. We all decided on the tools needed to be brought. For the most part Danniella would provide the camera, tripod, and props f or the film. Anya would mainly bring her costumes and an ashtray that we could add for the props. I'm to bring my camera SD card and tripod as a back up in case its needed. The next problem was casting. At first we had the idea of using our friends to help film. Many of the people we originally casted got sick over winter break and weren't available. We didn't have our main characters and we couldn't find anyone to replace them. We decided to change them to Danni and her mom at the end of the day. Finally, we had everything we needed to start filming. So that's the next step. I'll see you guys in the next blog!

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