Day 1 of Filming

 Introduction

    Today, my group and I started the first day of filming which was incredibly fun. We did filming today during class and after school and for Day 2 we will be filming the last scenes during class. After all of our hard work planning for the test and getting a general idea of how we what our movie to look, seeing it come to life is honestly a wonderful feeling. However, we did change some of the scenes, mainly the end scenes of our movie as well as the teacher's dialogue. We realized that we didn't have enough time, as our movie has to be 2 minutes long maximum, to include all the scenes we wanted to. Instead of including those scenes of a masked killer, we decided to have the antagonist's identity remain a mystery and introduce them as a crazy person who has an unknown motive and only one goal: to get the answers to the midterm test. The antagonist was introduced in the movie when they called the main character, Jess, and revealed that they kidnapped her friend Vanessa, however it can be assumed that the unknown figure is willing to go to extreme lengths such as murder to get the answers. We also changed the dialogue of the teacher to make it easier for our actual teacher to act, so she improvised her lines instead which gave us a good result. 

 Reflection

    All in all, I can say that the production of the test was an enjoyable experience. However, as much as it was fun, I can admit it was a bit tiring as well since we were required to act and figure out how our scenes should be executed. We also used an iPhone to film the actual movie so we had to be a bit flexible with how we could actually carry out the shots. Even though we had to make changes to our film, I believe that proved how adaptable we are as team.  Adaptability is very important when it comes to film making as things may not always turn out the way the film crew envisioned or problems could've occurred such as an actor getting sick, but being able to overcome these obstacles is very important and contributes to the production of a film greatly.