Meeting with our teacher!

 Today in class we got to talk to our teacher for feedback on our project. We then realized that we had come across a few obstacles. 

Location Issues

Due to the visually displeasing location that we are filming in, being a hallway in our school, it is difficult to gain control of the lighting and the extraneous variables that we may come across. To combat this, our teacher told us to make sure that we keep our shots tight to not include the fluorescent lights in the hallway. She also said that the shot might be unrealistic due to the emptiness of the hallway, or that it might be hard to record our sound if we do this in a busy hallway. We decided to ask some fellow students to play as extras in the hallway. To record the dialogue between our two girls, our teacher is going to let us borrow 2 of her wireless microphones to film so we can perfectly capture their voices, while also getting background chatter. It is important if we take different shots of the scene, one where the background characters aren't talking and we use sound effects of teenagers talking and we MAINLY focus on Jordyn and Amelia's dialogue, and another where we use the mics on our girls and we ask our background characters to talk in inside voices so we can capture both noises. We also brought up the potential idea to film outside, but the weather in Florida has been really gloomy and bipolar and we don't want to risk any weather issues. Also, the hallway really gives off the perfect school vibes. 

For filming in the bedroom, most of it is dialogue. Our teacher told us that it is really important that we keep the scene visually interesting. Luckily, both Mariana and Isabel, our actors for Jordyn and Amelia, have a lot of experience in theatre so we will make sure that they act their hearts out!! We will also switch up the camera angles and techniques so the scene stays interesting. 

Our Actors

So, we were told by our teacher that our two actors, Mariana and Isabel, look-alike... We had never seen that before but that's something really important to factor in.

So to combat this, we NEED to make sure that both of their costumes and demeanor are completely different to not confuse the audience and to show two distinct personalities. Both of the character's aesthetics are already really different so I hope that's not much of a problem. 

Something else that we might encounter as a problem is the busyness of our background actors. We might have to change our original filming day on Wednesday to another day since they might have rehearsal for their upcoming show, but besides that, we have a lot of people willing to participate!

Sound Issues

Sadly, our teacher let us know that it might be difficult to get clearance for Inhaler's song "It Won't Always Be Like This", so she told us to get a backup song. Luckily, Mariana and I were scouring the internet for royalty-free songs to use, and we found a good backup song! Here is the link to our song. 

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Despite all of the obstacles that we have come across, we are in a really good spot. We are also so excited to begin filming!! On Wednesday, we are hoping to complete all of the hallway shots after school, and then on Friday, we will be heading over to my friend Lauren's house to film the bedroom shots! If we don't finish, we will spill it over on Sunday. Stay tuned for my updates on filming. Yay!