Production 5- Filming Day

Today was the day scheduled for filming and luckily, Skylar got released from quarantine and was sent back to school today which gave us the chance to film together. We got to school, went to the auditorium, gathered our actors and actresses, and headed out to the front entrance to film the opening scene. We made our way through campus, filming in the areas we needed and finished filming in about 2 hours. Once we left campus and had all of the film together, we sent it to our other group member Elena to edit. We held group face time calls to give assistance and make sure everyone would be happy with the final product. While editing, we found that it was slightly difficult to hear the actors speaking through their masks as we did not use professional filming equipment. Thankfully this was our only major issue. Adding background music, transitions, and typography went smoothly as it was easy for us to agree on the way we wanted to edit the film. The final result ended with the editing style and personality we aimed for, just not the best sound quality. After some discussion, the group agreed to reshoot some scenes of the film in order to submit the best quality film we can with the equipment available to us. Overall, our first draft of the film turned our fairly decent, with only few adjustments to make.

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