Starting filming process

     Hi blog! I have very exciting news to share.. we finally started the filming process today, and also finished it in the same day. 

    Something so special to me about the filming process was having my dad as one of the background actors. Since we wanted the film to be more realistic to an office setting, we were looking for "middle aged" actors, rather than a bunch of high schoolers, and he agreed!

My dad

Although we originally planned to shoot from 11:00-1:30, we ended up reshooting a lot of scenes and even adding in some extra scenes that came to mind as we went, so the filming day ended up lasting until about 4. 

We started by filming the receptionist opening scene, which arguably was one of the hardest ones to do, since it was the establishing shot of the film. 

Opening shot

This particular scene of Tom walking down the hall took about (and I'm probably underestimating here) 30 tries. We made sure of every detail being perfect, down to the timing of his footsteps walking down the hall and the tracking shot from the receptionist to his face. We really wanted to establish the film in a way that had a similar shooting style to comedic shows like "The office", which was done by using immediate tracking shots and close up. We also had multiple lights set up around each scene, which we had to adjust for each shot.

One of the most fun scenes to shoot was the scene around the table, which was part of the receptionist's "dream plan". The actors really came through and delivered the cult like vibe we were going for by laughing maniacally and even creating a little choreography handshake routine, which is the scene I'm now most excited for people to see. 

"EVERYONE IS GATHERED ROUND THE TABLE, AND THEY'RE DOING SOME SILLY CHOREOGRAPHY THAT IS CULT LIKE"

"Oh Tom, you've gotta shake hands to really be part of the family" For this you have ALICE voiceover, and GREG verbalizing the line.

SHOT: They show TOM giving them a handshake in the vision

Overall, the filming process was a super fun experience, and I'm so glad we were able to knock it out in one day while still managing to get the shots exactly how we envisioned them. Now, we have to finish editing some reels for our Instagram and a few special videos, as well as finishing editing the actual short film.