Production Blog: Change of Plans

 Making plans for filming is hard in general. It becomes increasingly harder when you add spring break to the equation. Most people travel for spring break. If you're not traveling then you're probably very busy before, during, or after break. There's then of course people who have a mix of both these situations. Unfortunately my group is currently stuck in this situation. Lili has a job and Brianna just isn't available all the time. Aside from this I have to travel during break. It would've been easier to work out if we didn't have mandatory blogs each Monday and Thursday. These blogs must include at least 2 filming and 2 editing blogs. There's no way to complete these blogs without actually meeting up and getting the filming process over with. Therefore, all of our plans have changed. The group set a general timeline of during break. All these blogs mean that it has to be narrowed down. ALOT. The original date was March 21st. Then I got extremely shocking news that I had a state-level dance competition on the same day. Luckily I'm still in the same county or else the plans would've been completely devastated. I then came to the conclusion that I would just go to my competition then go to Lili's house to film. This was a very stressful process but I'm very happy that it got resolved this easily.



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