Production Blog: Filming Trouble

 My group and I split filming into two days. This was because Briana and Hannah's mom wouldn't let them leave Lili's house to film on Tuesday. The scene the group didn't get to film that day was the Galleria mall scene. In that scene everyone is walking through the mall with bags in their hands and having fun. Since most of the filming was finished pretty early the group didn't feel the need to rush filming this part. Unfortunately it turned out that after thanksgiving break none of our schedules matched up. This meant filming was gonna be a lot trickier then it was intended to be. The group decided that it wouldn't be possible for us to make it to the Galleria mall to film. Everyone then came an agreement to film at the Dairy Queen after school on Thursday. At the end of class Angie and Briana went to change while Lili and I already wore the clothes for the music video to school. After that the group met up with Hannah so she could film for us again then everyone walked over Dairy Queen. There wasn't really a plan for this scene besides getting the ice cream from Dairy Queen and eating it together. On the way Lili did point out a mini forest kind of like a tree clearing. This then became the decided spot to film the walking part of the scene. The group got the ice cream then sat at the benches near by. The plan was for us all to clink the cups then take a bite. This took about 2 takes then the process moved on.to the second half of the scene. This was part was fairly easy to shoot as all I had to do was run through the trees. It ended up looking really cool and everyone had fun.



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