Recording with a Crew

The 11th marked one of the more professional recording days so far. Although we did take a bit of time to get serious, the shoot went well and everyone has a sense on how things are going to work in the future. Amateur film making is a little step different from the professionals in mainstream and indie film making because you don't need to follow as many of the "rules." I didn't come to the Chik-Fila with paperwork or agents to discuss how we use the the footage, I simply asked the manager if we would have permission to film and that I would not be bothering the customers and filming them. The filming only involved a conversation between two characters but many different approaches and shots so that there isn't a shortage of film to work with in the editing room. This first scene went pretty well in my eyes for being what I consider one of the harder scenes because it was more acting oriented than others. The crew consisted of three people for a two man scene and I'm happy to learn that I don't need to complicate things with all sorts of equipment around and people setting up all sorts of things for such a simple scene.

Hope to provide an extreme update for everyone again with a practice action scene but unfortunately not much filming will take place next week because my parents are taking me to visit my relatives in California. I can still work on edits and research as well as showing actors scenes from other movies to get an idea of how I plan for the scenes to work. I hope everyone is having a spectacular spring break as well, it feel like almost forever since I've seen one of those.