Production Blog: Storyboard Organization and Filming What We Can

Filming is being held off until next week. Honestly, I'm not happy about it, but we'll be filming eventually. Besides, when we work together, we tend to work quickly. The weather also seems to be cooperating, with little to no rain occuring. Hopefully, we can get majority of those shots filmed. One of our members is going away for spring break, but they are not needed for certain shots. Another member has had scheduling issues, but they also aren't need for certain shots. Scheduling issues weren't thought of during the creation of the storyboard, but this is still very lucky. However, this means that I should go through and organize each shot by who is required so that we know ahead of, who's in what scene. Thinking more about it, this is probably what happens during the filming of actual movies. Filming what you can at a specific time and trusting the editor to place it all together. Considering how busy actors and others involved in the film industry are and how certain sets can be inaccesible for a time, this makes sense. I remember watching TENET(a movie I watched for genre research), and seeing scenes where the character were on a boat. They were also scenes with character in seaports and on crashing planes. There were also many prominent celebrities on set, such as Robert Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki. It made me wonder how long it took to film those scenes and how they managed to schedule things. Based on this lesson I've learned, I'm going to go through and organize what scenes include who, and where they are. The thing is, scheduling usually wasn't so difficult for us as a group. Maybe that's because this is such a big project, at least compared to the first two. The first one could be filmed at school and was only 30 seconds. The second one only required two-three days of filming and was definitely shorter. It's been a little anxiety-inducing to watch the time go by without filming, but this opportunity to streamline the process should be good. 

Pictured: A schedule 

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