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Production Process

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Today I will be telling you about my production process.

I was excited to finally start filming the week leading up. My group and I split up the number of supplies we wanted to incorporate in the film. I was in charge of getting the crime scene tape, which I found surprisingly at Home Depot. My other group members brought white chalk and fake blood. We finalized the supplies on a Friday, that way we were able to have time to get the supplies on the weekend. 

Week 1:  February 21-25

We decided to start filming the day we came back. But because all of our shots are exterior shots, we had to wait until the next day to get permission to begin filming. On the second day, we did film but we weren't sold on our shots. It didn't look right, it looked rushed. We planned on doing the fake blood scenes first, and that was our first downfall. Starting off, we should have done the non-bloody shots first. We realized this in our second week of filming. But you have to make mistakes in order to learn. And that is exactly what we did. On our third day, we decided to do our flashback shots (Non-bloody shots). But one of our group members forgot to bring her phone. This resulted in us going back for it but then we ended up staying in class to continue working on our blogs. On the last day, the fourth day I didn't come to school because I had a family emergency. 

On the weekend we came to the conclusion that we needed to put more effort into our filming. 

Week 2:   February 28- March 4

We started off the second week strong. Although, on Monday I was not present because of a family emergency. On Tuesday, we didn't film because of the weather, so we stayed in class and worked on our blogs. We decided to dedicate Wednesday to just staying in class and working on our 3D animation for our production company. This worked out because we only had 35 minutes in class, due to SAT testing. With that completed, on Thursday we completed all of our flashback shots. We actually had a lot of fun filming instead of rushing to make it look perfect. We put more effort into the small details and loved the outcome. The same thing on Friday, instead we just completed all the bloody shots. And BOOM we concluded our week(s) of filming!! Yay! 

Also, something that we didn't keep in mind at first was the amount of time it was going to take to set up our shots. It took quite some time to plaster the fake blood and sketch out the body using the white chalk. Not to mention, it was a struggle setting up the crime scene tape. 

Here are some of our shots:

     





Here is the shot with the phone issue:


As you can see the phone kept dimming as I was trying to film. But lucky we have solved the issue! 

Mistakes are just a stepping stone, into helping us be better!





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