Our filming began on Saturday, December 4. Everything was done at Nicole's house, they had the perfect set for the job and a good location relative to where we needed to be in our storyboard. I arrived to Nico's house as the clock approached 4:30pm, just in time. Jordyn, Nico, and our star actor Brandon were already there, hanging out and planning where to do things while we awaited Yaneli's arrival. While we got Yaneli dressed for the faux couple photos after she had turned up, I suggested different looks we could give to the pictures. After the pictures were sent to Jordyn, I helped her fix the lighting and editing using the app Adobe Lightroom and the general apple camera settings. I often suggested adjusting the exposure in our camera before shooting our clips or taking pictures of our actors, which really helped to fix the minor lighting problems in our shots. We adjusted our approach when things were too dark, or when things needed to be more vibrant; these key changes made us successful. After waiting until it got dark enough outside to shoot the scenes, the team was on a roll. I next helped my group envision our set in a professional sense. The goal was to have no light beams coming from any of the windows and no casts from the lamps on either side of the bed. I gave pointers on how to set up our lights in our bedroom scenes and confirmed when Nico made good adjustments, Jordyn furthered this task by checking our tripod consistently. Yaneli brought a lamp to use when the light in the room was too low. After we turned it up, we set it to purple, which seemed like a recurring hue in our video. As we filmed, I kept the outside environment quite and helped to move objects in the way of our shots. Eventually getting to the part of our storyboard where Brandon is first filmed walking out of the door after the bed transition, it was my job to help with the music. Essentially, I had to put the music to the correct time and play it for 3 seconds, maybe more, it varied on each shot. I was happy to help the team time everything correctly by adding the background music of this part of the video. I also helped fix a problem with shadows being in the shot, when the shadow of our actor should only be visible. I suggested using our phones' flashlights behind us, and we adopted this plan and tried following Nico with the camera. In the end, it was just a matter of using a higher angle and putting the light in the middle of the room instead of the side. While I wasn't our main director or filmer, I did the little things that helped to push the bigger things. I made sure the actors were comfortable, helped position items in the frame, talked about transitions with the people filming, gave my unbiased advice, and always maintained a stellar level of professionalism.
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