Filming Blog: Filming For Real This Time

 After the unfortunate misuse of time the other day, our group decided that we needed to stay on track. We decided to pick a meeting spot for after school so that we would not waste time. This time when the bell rang there was no issue with finding any group members. Darrow and I rode with Allison and we stopped to get food on the way. It is important that we don't work on empty stomach, because we might become hangry and that could hinder the process. After eating we headed to Allison's. Luckily the puppies were no longer staying there, keeping us free of distractions. This was unfortunate for me though because I was really hoping to see them. Darrow and Allison went and put on their cowboy and cowgirl costumes that they had picked out prior. We headed outside to Allison's drive way and Darrow got in the drivers seat. The first scene was supposed to be Darrow driving to pick up Allison. I positioned the shot for a wide shot angle in order to show the whole setting. This scene took a couple tries to film because we had to get the timing of the driving just right. After finally getting the first scene done we moved onto the second. This scene was the one where Allison would put her feet up for the the lyric, "put your pretty feet up on my dash". I positioned myself behind the car in order to get a good angle for this scene. Once I felt like I had gotten a good scene we decided to drive down the road a bit to find an emptier road with less cars driving around. We drove by a s shaded empty road surrounded with shrubbery, and I knew this was the perfect place to film. We filmed the next scene there of the car driving and I was very pleased with Ella and I's work. We went back to Allison's house to look over our scenes and make sure we were happy with what we had completed, and we were indeed. We called it a day, and everyone went home to their individual houses. 


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