Filming Blog: Upperclassmen Patio

 Today I had a shorter class period due to it being a professional study day. This meant that the group had less time to film the final scenes. I thought it would be an easy day since most of what was needed was already filmed but unfortunately, this was not the case. Looking through the clips, I noticed that one of the clips was rushed last class and would not line up well with everything else. I had to re-film it but there was one small problem. I did not bring the grey jacket that I wore when we originally filmed it. I could not film without the jacket as it would appear inconsistent in the scene. One of my group mates were wearing a grey jack that could be used to replicate the first scene. She, however, did not want to give up her jacket. Not even for the mere three seconds that the scene would have taken. That scene had to be redone because Eden was wearing a head scarf in the last scene and not in this one. The scene where the pen was exchanged could not be redone because there was not enough time to do it. It also could not be redone because the sweet potato fries on the ground that we used as a prop had been cleaned up already. In the end, the scene was re-filmed successfully. Ashleigh remembered she had a grey jacket in her car and begged the security guard to let her go get it. During this whole ordeal, the dismissal bell also went off at the wrong time causing people to leave class and move into the scene while it was being filmed. Needless to say, it was a very chaotic day. Though it would have saved a lot of time if my first groupmate had just momentarily lent us her jacket, at the end of the day it was her property, so she had all rights not to. I just hope her not cooperating both today and the last time that we filmed doesn’t drive a wedge between the group. It’s hard to make a commercial when your group mates are fighting.