Shooting Day 1

 After many bumps on the road, it is finally day to stat shooting!

Since I was in a rush to begin production and getting actors we recorded it in a parking lot. Which is not ideal for a production but that was the only way the actors would be willing to participate. 

I had explained everything that i wanted and the storyline, but it was still hard trying to vision  my idea with other people. I felt like they didn't exactly get what I was trying to do with this, making everything a lot more difficult. 

As we began recording the first scene, the actors weren't transmitting what I wanted them to, and they weren't taking it seriously either. This was when I had a reality shock that I was doing this by myself, and I truly missed being in a group, because when you're in a group you all know exactly what they are suppose to do and how to direct other people. It also helps actors take the production more seriously. I also had a lot of trouble with being the only person doing everything, shooting making sure im keeping track of the shot log, the shots are right, audio it was all very stressful although I had help with me, they aren't in the class which made a HUGE difference. Regardless of them having the best intentions to help they didnt know what they were doing. 

For the first 30 minutes those were all of my issues but then Angel b who is one of the guys that also works with me offered to help, since he went to college at UCF for film production, without his help I honestly I had no idea what I would've done. As he joined the actors started taking everything serious. He also made great suggestions on the positioning of the actors, script and helped me direct this production. 

Although the beginning was really hard I pushed through and I learned a lot from all the tips Angel gave me, during productions. It also showed a different side of working alone that I hadn't encountered before.