shooting

 So I shot Anxious Melodies, and it did not go horribly.

So since I told you guys I did play the main character, SO when shooting it was me and my friend Mateo because no one else was able to help. This was a big struggle since it was just the two of us and honestly really annoying because I am always able to help everyone when they need but when I need help no one is available to help me. That's why I love Mateo so much because he is always able to help me and I appreciate him very much. I am grateful that Mateo was able to help me and I think it turned out great. I would have liked it better if I wasn't in it and instead behind the camera but I have to do what I got to do to get this project done. 

Ok so to the actual shooting part, I wanted to shoot in 3 different locations. The first location is at school, Here we shot in a classroom, the hallway, and the bathroom. Then we shot in my house where we shot in my room and dining room. And lastly, we shot in my street, on the road, on the sidewalk. 

We did not shoot in chronological order because since we were already at school, we shot first in the classroom. Here we shot the scene where Olivia gets confronted by the teacher, since this was after school there was no one there to play the actual teacher so we positioned the shot behind a chair to make it over the shoulder, so it looks like there is a person there and I am speaking to them; here is one of the shots that require a voice-over which I'm going to ask one of my friend's dads, or mom to do it for me. The next shot we shot was Olivia walking out the door of the classroom after talking to the teacher, here we see her start to have a panic attack and drop her notebook. After she walked out of the classroom, We got a shot of her dropping her notebook and walking fast to the bathroom, so for most of the shots we decided to go handheld and the reason is because it adds to the stress she is having, it makes the viewer feel the panic attack and feel how Olivia feel, we did this for the majority of shots except ones where we wanted to show some stability. In this shot, we made sure to get the front and back of the same action of her walking so we see both the notebook fall and her facial expressions. After this, we started to shoot the scene which I think is the most important scene which is the one of Olivia having a panic attack. We first got a shot of Olivia walking and I thought we could be creative I took some inspiration from a shot we saw in an excerpt in class the other day from the show killing eve where the camera is positioned through a mirror where we see the main character, so in my shot, we positioned the camera where it points to the mirrors and we see Olivia walking into the bathroom, we also got a shot of Olivia back walking into the bathroom stall, and we see her slam the door.   

The second location we shot at was at my house we first started in my room, where we shot the shot of Oliva writing in her diary, this is one of the shots I wanted to add to the opening because I thought it would look cool. The shot is a bit shaky in a bad way cause it required Mateo to walk around the bed but I think it turned out good. Afterward, we went to my living room where we shot Olivia doing her homework as her parents fought, we got multiple angles just in case; for these shots, we used a tripod because we thought it would be too shaky otherwise. 

Lastly, we filmed the beginning of the film which is outside on the street. We had a lot of fun with these shots because we got to use my bike and run around my neighborhood. Here we just got every shot we could imagine, I rode the bike up and down the hills, we went on the sidewalk, the street, the grass. I made sure to tell Mateo to get a variety of shots, like one of my feet, and one on ground level. We spent the most time here to get the shots perfect because it is the first scene of the film so I wanted it to look good.

After this the next day I did have to make up one shot that I was missing, which was the shot of Olivia writing the name of the artist she loves on her notebook, this was a quick shot that took about 5 minutes to do, it was handheld and it had people talking in the back for the classroom effect.

Overall the shooting process was very stressful but I think I got everything I needed to edit a great film opening. I know I'm going to struggle to edit and look for clips, so I made sure to mark the clips I liked after filming to make things easier when I started to edit