Filming Days Blog

On our filming days, we were always worrying about the outside lighting. Alexa and I would try to film after school mostly because I have work on the weekends and we were both always busy. But by the time we get home and situate ourselves the lighting outside would start to dim. We would spend our first couple of days starting our production, just going out and shopping or picking up whatever we needed. Then it would be spent trying to plan out everything we needed to film on later days. Alexa was our cinematographer and I was the main actress. We would always look back on what we filmed to make sure it was done correctly. We wouldn't move on until we loved it. No matte how many takes it took. In some scenes it was hard not to laugh. Especially since Alexa and I are such good friends. Our friends Diego and Sonali also helped us to as well as act in our film. In the scene where I have a panic attack because I couldn't find my pills and my mom runs from where she was sitting into my room, that was all shot by Sonali. Since she is shorter then Alexa we had her film it because there was a mirror right behind my mom. When Alexa was filming you can see her in the mirror. Also in the drug dealing scene, where me and Diego are in the car, we didn't have room in the car for Alexa to film. So he filmed me and I filmed him. After a day of filming Alexa would put it all together on her computer. With that, we could then see what else we need to film. Also how long we needed to make our next scenes.