Before Filming

 The day finally came, film day!

At 2 pm on February 17, I went to Walmart to buy wrapping paper to wrap some boxes to look like gifts. Unfortunately, I left the wrapping tapping in the car after my dad dropped me off. Then I went home packed and ate. At 4 I left my house with my dad to pick up Chatae( one of our actors). After picking her up, we took a 35-40-minute drive to Kaydiane's house (where we were filming). Once there we went to pick up Avoine( another actor). Keron( another actor) went to shower since he was already at Kaydiane's house. Problem one: arose when we reached Aoine's house and had to wait for his mom to come because he couldn't leave his sister by herself This delayed us about 15 to 20 minutes. Then after that, we had to pick up some food so nobody complained of hunger as we were filming it was around 7:15. We got back to the house about 15-30 minutes later waiting on the food and driving back to the house. Then the second problem arose when Christel ( another actor) was lost on the highway because her GPS wasn't working. At around 8 she arrived and everyone began to eat. While eating we were blowing balloons and wrapping boxes to look like gifts. After that, everyone who still needed to be in their proper attire changed. Then everyone took some time to read their lines to prepare to begin filming. 

Some tips to take from today are to tell your actors to come 3 hours before you actually plan to film. There WILL be late actors and things WILL come up. Two, have food prepared for your actors if you know it will take a while to film because you and your actors WILL get hungry. I get it we are all going but if we had done this in advance we would have started filming much earlier and I wouldn't have got home at 12 am from filming. 

Well, that's all for today until next time. 



 

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