I thought I would check-in and tell you all about how filming went. We mainly needed to continuously shoot the one panning shot the most so allow me to go into detail about that.
So at first, I was a little nervous because the tripod I have doesn't have a dolly. Therefore, we had to sort of kinda maybe do it manually. It allows me to pan from left to right and vice versa but I can't follow the actors per se. This is why my main concern for filming was to find the right person to help me, because as I had said before, I would have easily done it myself but I had to be in the film... Thank gosh a little angel came and saved me from the choppy shots. My great friend Mia Batista <3 was the camera operator for my opening. Also, I had to change Raymond to Ramona because I wasn't able to find a reliable male actor. Luckily my other great friend Isabella was able to help me. Which, in the long run, is better for me in case I need to reshoot something because she also happens to be my neighbor!!
My great friend Isa
My great friend Mia
Filming the main shot took about an hour since, of course, we wanted to get it just right. As I mentioned in one of my previous blog posts, I didn't really love the idea of creating a script, and honestly, I'm so glad I did it this way. Since this is based on true events, I wanted the scene to feel as authentic as possible. Right away I told my actors that this would be improvised and I let them do their thing. AND THEY DID AMAZINGGG. I feel like when actors have scripts, they sometimes focus way too much on remembering their lines and interpreting their lines and they forget that acting is reacting. So doing improv for my opening was definitely an amazing decision that I'm really glad worked out.
Here's a nice little BTS pic :D
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