More Filming

After reviewing the footage taken in the last filming session, we decided that the story and filming were not that great. Instead, I decided that I was going to re-shoot some scenes and make some new ones. I first started off with discussing some plans with the story and decided that we would have a flashback to an emergency broadcast, then have the actor wake up to an alarm clock a couple weeks after living in the apocalypse. I filmed Monzur and Juan sitting on a couch watching TV and talking when all of a sudden an emergence broadcast pops up on the screen. Next, I filmed a close-up shot of Monzur's eyes of him sleeping, had an alarm clock go off, him jolt his eyes open then shut off the alarm clock. Then I had an over the shoulder shot of Monzur writing in a diary of his life in the apocalypse. I filmed him walking over to his closet where he is keeping his food rations in the apocalypse and show that the supplies are running low. Next, I filmed him packing a backpack to go on a supply run. After that, I had a close-up shot of Monzur tying his shoes to get ready for his supply run. I got up on his roof and for the next shot, I filmed him walking out from his driveway to the street. I got down and did another close-up shot of Monzur's legs and feet walking down the sidewalk. I discussed with my group how to do the next shot with Juan hiding around a corner as a zombie. I came up with recording an over the shoulder shot of Juan standing aimlessly and when the unsuspecting Monzur walks in view, Juan the zombie is alerted and attacks Monzur. I followed behind Juan while he ran towards Monzur and attacks him. This was a difficult scene to film as I had to sometimes stop and wait for there to be no traffic and because of the acting. This scene was shot many, many times. I even moved locations, such as across the street (with the actors) to get a different perspective on this scene. After what felt like 30 shots of this scene, My group and I decided that we should be ok in having the right shot and we wrapped up filming. Within those many different shots of this scene, there is surely 1 that is ok to put in the film. If none of the shots were good, I planned to meet up with my group on Sunday to finish and to tweak what we have so far.


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