Participants Blog

 We thankfully have friends who are willing to make room on their schedule to film with us. My mom Alejandra D'Orazio, also played my mother in the film. She honestly was a bit hesitant to play this role. She is an immigrant from Venezuela and she has a thick accent. She can speak English, but sometimes it's hard for her to pronounce words. We didn't want to get one of our friends to play my mom because it wouldn't have looked realistic. We also really wanted our film to take place in my house specifically, so we weren't going to have someone else's mom come over to film all these scenes. Her role was super important to the film so we needed someone who would put a lot of effort into our film. She agreed and we love the way she preforms in it. My EMS teacher Mr. Evans was a huge help in all of this. I asked close to the start of this project if he was okay with letting us use the equipment and his room. The ambulance in his classroom was honestly the key to making our film look mature and convey our effort. We needed a 2nd paramedic to just be in the ambulance to make it accurate. Our friend Alexander Cabrera, agreed last minute on the day of our filming day to do the scene. Mr. Evans has extra uniforms in the back, so he just put that on. Diego and Sonali are close friends of both Alexa and I, so it was easy to convince them to participate in our film. They both fit their roles perfectly. Diego was the drug dealer, he at the moment looked the part because he had just came back from a soccer game and it was rainy. Sonali was the nurse and she had scrubs on so she really sold the look.