First scene filmed

I am so relieved to say that we have finally shot the first portion of our film opening! This was very much a learning experience for all of us, to say the least, so let's talk about some of what went into it.

DESK (Vanessa) 

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  Establishing from table (redo)

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  High angle of her writing  

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  Extreme close up of her eyes looking all over the place 

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  Over the shoulder shot of writing 

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  Close up of her finishing book

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  Medium of her her closing pen

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  Close up of her closing pen

This was the scene we filmed last week (finished on Friday), where Vanessa acted as our main character.

This was meant to establish the equations she is working on that relate to pseudoscience, which is what the

whole film is going to be about.

First of all, we had to check out a lot of equipment at Broward Schools free provider, beacon, where we

were able to get three lights, a camera, tripod, and microphones.

We set the lights to a warm, orange tone, because we wanted to give a cozy vibe, as this opening scene

is filmed in the comfort of our main character, Tina's, secret office. Although you can't see it in the picture,

there are lights framing all three sides of her face to ensure the scene is well lit.

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• As you can see in the pictures, we also carefully set up the desk to give the idea that she is working
• on something very complicated, and not quite understandable. Her papers are full of messy, unreadable,
• equations and she has computer screens set up with random lines and equations, that show a pattern
• in history. This was part of our set design, as well as a history book by her side.

One of the trickier parts of this filming process was the audio. We wanted to get close up sounds of

her writing, since this scene included almost no dialouge, Therefore, we wanted the sounds to be

clear, sharp sounds of things like her pen writing, or a page turning. Therefore, a simple mic stood up

from far away was not going to cut it.

So.... I had to get down there.

Me holding up the mic to Vanessa's hand while filming.

This part was especially hard because we had to make sure I was not seen in the frame holding up the microphone, but that we got it close enough to get really clear sounds of her 

writing the equations.

Overall, this process was really fun, and I loved seeing all the different elements that go 

into producing a film. Even in this one scene, which was about 15 seconds, we spent

over two hours setting it up, filming it, and packing everything away.