Day Two of Shooting Forsaken!!!

    Greetings bloggers and welcome back! Join us today for DAY TWO of filming our masterpiece, Forsaken! It is finally that time so let's jump right into it! As we had discussed previously, we had a character change and just really wanted to retake different shoots for the pace and smoothness of the film. So today is that day and I am so glad to tell you that we are so much more satisfied with today's final product! We unfortunately were not able to film everything today but we will be continuing to do more reshoots on our final day...DAY 3 which we plan to do on Saturday, January 25th! Additionally, there were lots of challenges that we faced on our Day 2 of filming and I will talk more about that throughout this blog. 

    Firstly, we had all discussed and agreed to meet at 2:30PM for our Day 2 and that would give us room to maximize our scenes. Our partner, Marcus, was running a little late which is totally fine because we were still able to accomplish a lot of work in this time. For the day one of filming, I did not speak about this previously but I was not there in person due to scheduling conflicts but, I am so glad I was able to help Marcus behind the camera and come up with different ideas to help this opener become even greater! On a side note, for the experiences within the Day 1 posts, I had collaborated with my team and we talked specifically about lots of details so I could still have some background and talk to you guys more about our filming process!

    As soon as we got to the mall, it was VERY windy and with filming a few shots outside, we could already tell that this could be a potential conflict. These heavy winds not only affected the appearance of the characters, with their hair and clothes blowing all over the place, but also effected audio greatly when we were playing it back. Despite these conflicts, we did manage to make the film look good with introducing background music since our sound was compromised and this actually worked out way better to set the overall mood and express the excitement. Everything worked out well!

    At the same time, when we were filming outside, we were trying to perfect a transition to make such a smooth exit to the next scene. After lots of failed attempts and lots of laughter, as we just kept making the same mistake over and over, we finally got our transition figured out as we just moved to an alternative approach which worked out even better. Even though these challenges were frustrating in the moment, we are so thrilled that everything panned out perfectly and honestly just a successful Day 2. We ended up getting through half of the reshoots which we are beyond greatful that we did. We are so much more satisfied with this final product rather than our first takes of it. We are seeing that as we take more time and tackle these scenes day-by-day, the efficiency and smoothness of our film is way better than how it was before. 

    

    Thank you for reading on our Day 2 OF FILMING! Stay tuned for Day 3 and other furture updates on our project and we will see you in the next post!