The Countless Issues that we Face

 Hello guys. To successfully get a product that all three of us were proud of, we had to go through A LOT. Let me walk you through the absolute mess that this week was just trying to begin and finish filming. 

On Monday, Mariana texted us saying that she had gotten really sick and that she wouldn't be able to play Jordyn. Isabella and I were panicking. We were scrambling and asking our friends who could play Jordyn. We had only one day to find an actor since we were going to film on Tuesday. I asked one of my friends, Hayley, if she could play our main girl, and she said yes! Isabella said that she bore the most resemblance to the idea that we had of Jordyn.

Tuesday came around, and filming went great! Or so we thought... This was Hayley's first time acting, and she was really nervous being around a bunch of theatre kids, but she did a great job! We had finished filming after two hours of being at school, which was EXHAUSTING, but I digress, and we had felt really content! Despite Mariana's absence, she was able to gather around 20 people to play background characters, and we honestly wouldn't have been able to do the scene as well as we did without her help.

On Wednesday, Isabella and I got together during our free period to begin editing! Everything was going well until we realized one huge issue. There were MAJOR continuity issues. Due to the time constraints of our background actors, Isabella and I took the executive decision of filming the scenes with them first, and after they had left, we did the scenes with just Hayley and Isabel. HUGE mistake. In some scenes, there would be no people in the background, and in the following scene, there would be people!!!! 

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I was LIVID. I was so mad that we would have to refilm most of the school scene. I felt so bad for Hayley, Isabel, and our background actors since they volunteered their time to participate in our film and we messed it up really badly. When telling Hayley and Isabel that we had to refilm, Hayley told us that she had something after school and that she wouldn't be able to participate. So we then realized that we would have to find another actor AND refilm the entire school scene. Luckily, Mariana was feeling a lot better so she took her role back as Jordyn. 

On Thursday, we ended up filming both of our scenes in one day. Thankfully, it went really well and we had no complications! We went back in and made sure that we had all of our background characters in the back to truly make it like a school environment!

All of these issues definitely made me realize that these things happen, and there's really nothing you can do to stop them. I'm really grateful that we caught that, and next time, we will make sure that we double-check everything and to even keep things that seem obvious in mind. I'm really glad that we had to refilm it because I like the newer version a lot more! I'm sad that Hayley wasn't able to continue her role as Jordyn, but Mariana also did a great job.