The Weekend of the Success of the Filming of the Gossiping of the Moms

So this weekend was ridiculously progressive with our documentary. We managed to shoot a third of our footage this weekend for our whole film, as well as establish a poster for the movie itself.

We woke up on Saturday morning to get the poster done, shooting outside of Fischer Student Union and taking on the task of readying our actors and shooting the photos before it started raining, which we completed just in time.

Several hours later we were back on set, this time at the house of one of the mothers we were to interview. I had invited a younger film student to set to help me out with as well as to learn about the equipment. Along with the regular crew, we set up as quickly as we could, despite having several setbacks, including dust on the internal sensor of the camera, minor lighting troubles regarding mirrors, and an extremely poorly timed interruption by the neighbors to deal with parking issues.

Beyond these trifles the shoot was extremely successful. Our interviews went exceedingly well, and came out exactly as we envisioned. Our interviewees talked casually and everyone had a great time!

The next day we met in the black box to shoot our narrative mother's scene. We gathered there slowly between 1 and 2. With the help of Kebba and Mariah, I quickly set up lighting and camera, while later assisting them in setting up the background of the scene. The first couple of hours after we were ready to begin production were largely underwhelming on my part, only because our plan was largely revolving around sound and editing at that point. Later on I shot the scene itself one actor at a time, and Mariah had me take photos of each of our 4 crew members against a different one of our 4 backgrounds.

By the end of the day we were all extremely satisfied with the work we had gotten done, and Mariah put together our group photo mimicking the mom's narrative scene. Everything looks great, and maybe I'm a lot more enthusiastic this week because I got to put my lighting skills I had been learning from last semester to serious work, but I feel suddenly even more confident in our actions and our film as a whole than I did before.

Also a Storyboard. Just one. That's it.

An overview of the Narrative layout and frames for Act 2 Scene 1