Unfortunately, Amelia was unable to attend our first filming meeting as a group. This hindered how many scenes we could actually film (because we didn't have enough actors) and forced us to only be able to film the opening scene of our movie. Because we are now on a time crunch, we are planning to meet after school on Wednesday to finish filming. Hopefully all group members will be able to attend. Not only this, but we did not have a tripod or camera when we filmed on Saturday. This made it harder to incorporate some of the shots we wanted. However, we still made progress. For example, to film the point of view shot of our main character walking up to his grandmother's house, we wrapped two rubber bands around Thomas' phone and my head. Even though it was slightly difficult to get the phone situated at first, we were able to get the shots we needed. This was probably the hardest thing we did that day.
To go more in depth about what happened on Saturday, it is important to note that Maya and Thomas were helping one another film while I was acting. I played the role of our movie's main character, Alex. Unfortunately, there were only two scenes that Alex played by himself in. Therefore, we were only able to complete a couple of scenes. In fact, because Amelia was not there, we asked my neighbor to take her place and play the uncle (instead of the aunt) of Alex. Considering these accommodations we made, I believe we were quite productive. We will also still be using my neighbor as an actor in our film. All we need to figure out now is who will be playing the grandma/old lady in our film. We are considering using my neighbor's mom or Thomas' grandma. We will have to further discuss this collectively to agree upon a median.
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