Production Blog: Beach Babes

 As a new day of filming arises, so do a new set of problems. We agreed to film today after school since we were all free. The problem was deciding where to film. We still needed the elevator scene since we couldn't get it at the parking garage. It was super busy, and we would need the elevator for a minimum of 20 minutes to get all our shots, and 20 minutes was pushing it. Holding the elevator for that long felt wrong, so we opted against it. We needed a new elevator, and Ash and Siena argued about which elevator would be better to film in. Siena wanted to film at Galleria mall, arguing that it would be emptier during the week, so we could continue using it. Ash argued that Galleria mall was always busy, so we'd be blocking someone regardless. Ash found another location with an older elevator that would transition well enough to look like we filmed it at the parking garage. It was a residential elevator, too, so it wouldn't be as busy as the other two locations. Siena hated this idea. The mall was down the road, and she just wanted to get it over with. Ash didn't want it to be rushed because it'd result in crappy scenes. Evidently, I sided with Ash. Why wouldn't we film in the less busy elevator? It seemed like the obvious choice, but Siena angrily stormed off, so I guess she disagreed. Did I mention this whole argument was happening in class? It was super embarrassing.

After the whole debacle, we decided to save the elevator scene for another day, leading us to the beach again. We needed the seawall scene and search for the seashell. There were children on the playground, and we didn't want to interrupt them, so we decided to take it out of the script. Despite the argument, the scenes went well, with us only interrupted by the wind howling in the background. Isolating audio from that is going to be a pain. We might have to do a voiceover for today's clips. It should be easier because many of the dialogue scenes were close-up shots, so you can see the face clearly enough to reenact the emotions in their voices. But that's another day's problem. Here's a behind-the-scenes picture of getting the exact position right for the next scene.