Day 1 of Shooting Forsaken!!!

    Hello Bloggers, I am so happy to make this announcement of our 1st day on set or our film opener, Forsaken. This brings so many different emotions to our whole team of how we are turning this crazy story into reality! Everything was coming together to rapidly and we are so happy to continue to provide you more and more updates until we are finished. We were of course nervous on a personal level as well and had unexpected moments where shots were too bright but for the most part it was a great first experience. We can't wait for what this whole production has for us! Now, like I was explaining a little bit there were some challenges and I just want to get into our progress of Forsaken so far. 

    Firstly, we had struggled at the beginning of the day trying to figure out exactly what song would make the beginning scene and all of this come together. We all agreed on just doing background music but even with that, we had issues because it was in the branches of being way too intense or just not impactful enough. The time had gone so fast and we were wasting so much of it on figuring out what to do with the sound. We all decided to just wait for retakes which wasn't the plan we were going for but I am well sure that we will make an even better scene doing this. Even though it was hard to just leave it we know it's just the production process and everything will piece in together at the end. 

    Additionally, our next challenge was creating different transitions between shots. We really wanted our transitions to be nice and smooth and really appeal to the audience. It required lots of different takes with the right timing and positioning to get it right. We attempted to do so many pan shots that even watching it over threw us off. But in the end, everything came together and we are in a better spot to work with in regards to the flow. 

    However, things started to get better when filming at the different locations and that shot definitely got much easier. When we went to places such as H&M, Vans, and the arcade, we found the filming to be much easier as everything was just coming together with their lighting and it did not require as much struggle as we had at other places. It was so fun when filming in these places and one of the workers at Vans had even come up to us and said that our filming was awesome! It was definitely amazing capturing all of these different moments and these scenes required not much effort which had helped out time management. This helped towards the end so much to balance everything out!

      Lastly, we finished everything up at my friend Freddy's house, and it had been such a perfect timing and scene to film the isolation that Kendrick had been feeling from waking up from this dream. His room having such a melancholic atmosphere is exactly what we had planned for since day one and brought so many thrilling feelings to us as our vision was coming to reality. Throughout, we kept the lighting off and the shadows that had been reflected from his windows also helped so much, it was perfect! Leaving everything off like this just really gave us that feeling of reassurance and we felt awesome ending the day!

    One last update, after an in-depth review of the footage, me and the team realized that we were going to have to fix some shots as it wasn't the idea that we were going for. They were well done but when it came to the flow of things and putting everything all together, we wanted to make the film more smoothly organized. It was disappointing to us that the idea we were going for did not fully come to life but I am happy to announce that we are planning to do reshoots. We have decided to meet up again on Sunday, January 19th, to finally finish the filming process and since we want to really focus on some parts that we missed and really add depth to the feeling behind it, as well as our challenges that I discussed with the transitions and shots. It will definitely be a busy day for us but we are so excited to expand on what we have and add greater depth to our film and make Forsaken even better.

Thank you guys for all of your support since day one and we are so excited to talk more about filming in the next blog.