Day One of Filming (11/29)

Starting off during the first day of filming we went out to the patio and began to set up. While Bella was setting up the tripod/camera and aligning the benches to be centered, I ensured the costumes were all in order by fixing Sophie's dress shirt and tie, and drawing a goatee onto Kim. Once all the stuff with costumes was squared away, we started filming our first scene. 

Our first shot was a simple establishing shot of Kim sitting on the bench as Sophie walked in. We purposely had Kim sitting on the right and then Sophie entering from/sitting on the left in order to show the good guy vs. bad guy dynamic between the two - a film concept demonstrated in dozens of popular movies. After a few takes for scenes that are done from the front, we began shooting coverage.

The purpose of shooting so much coverage is to give us the versatility of angles for different scenes. These varying angles can help to emphasize the suspense or emotion of certain scenes and in order to successfully execute our film's production, it's important we have that emphasis. Thankfully we were able to efficiently shoot a lot of this coverage which gives us even more versatility.

Overall, day 1 moved very quickly as we did not have to reshoot many scenes - especially the coverage. When writing down the shots I left some brief notes as well as check marks next to the scenes that were usable. This will help simplify the editing process for Sophie later and allow her to recognize which scenes were which, as well as which were the better ones. 

I am very happy with how the filming went and look forward to the remainder of the filming.