Filming at the Track: And...ACTION!

 Filming day one started a little later than we would have liked. We had some mishaps with the clothing our actors were to wear, but we got things sorted out and made our way to the track field. While at the track field, it was decided between us to instead film at the baseball field for its preferable lighting and sun positioning. Throughout our process, I played a director's assistant type role. Jordyn began by trying to find a suitable angle to do our continuous full shot from the sun to our subjects. Meanwhile, I would help her try and position the camera to center and focus in on Yaneli and Nicole. This first shot looked to be difficult to get because of the location of the bleachers, but we made amends. Jordyn ended up filming a take by doing a backbend to get the right shot! Another problem that happened often was the sun disappearing. However, waiting a bit of time would usually fix this quite quickly. After filming certain clips, I would go to a shady spot with Jordyn and review our clips to see if we needed to do any redos or change any actions we've been doing in the scenes and while filming the scenes. I would give my opinion when asked by our director (Jordyn), as would everyone else, and we would make accomodations for everyone based on that. During clips I made sure our cans were always facing the camera for appropriate product placement, otherwise we'd have to re-do scenes, it just helps in the long run. Another task I did was regularly spraying our Arizona cans with a water mixture to make it look like condensation was happening and sell the look that our room-temperature beverages were "ice cold." With Florida weather, it evaporated off the cans very quickly, so I was spraying these cans before every scene at least. As well as spraying the cans, I sprayed our two actors with this mixture often to make them look sweaty, as our storyboard outlined how hot the day turned to be. I made sure our actors were comfortable and often asked if they needed anything, this made me feel like a true professional in the back-stage aspect of filming. We were a bit short on time, but finished day 1 strong with most of the speaking scenes done. The bell rang for next period and I brought our props and supplies back to the classroom because my next class was in the same building.