Production Blog: Filming Problems

 Well Spring break started off with a great start. We filmed 4 scenes on Tuesday. As you know though, thing never go so smooth. There's always going to be problems. We planned to film around 12:00. So I got to Akiel's house at 11:57. We were waiting almost an hour for Mya and Lela. So while we were waiting, we filmed the scene with Akiel in it because that's the only thing we could do. Then when they finally came, we did the first scene, which is an overview of the neighborhood. We had to get on top of Lela's car to do it. That took about 3 takes. Then we drove to the corner store so we could film the 2 scenes. The scene where Akiel was in the store, we had to have our masks on because of coronavirus. We were trying to film the other scenes but they kept messing up. Then Akiel had to go somewhere so we had to go back to his house and wait almost 30-40 minutes for him. Then we went back to the store to do the final scene. We were trying to figure out how are we going to do a long shot, and be able to hear Mya and Lela's conversation. So we just came to a conclusion that we'll do a voiceover. It took us about 10-15 takes because they kept forgetting their lines. The phone we were using for the voiceover ended up dying so we had to use someone's else phone. The problems we had was that strangers kept walking in the camera which was very rude. About 2 times I forgot to record.