Filming day #1

Hello! I finally started recording today! The filming setting was my best friend's house. I got the mirror, work, friend, boyfriend scenes.

For the mirror scene, we ended up recording on my best-friend's bedroom mirror, I felt that it fits more in the mood and the mirror was larger so it allowed us to record the body better. My initial plan was to start off with the close up to the mirror and the graduation cap being accommodated by Paula. However, I found it difficult  because it was a extreme close up what I was thinking of doing and it did not look very good in the mirror. My best friend (Majo) gave me the idea of showing her doing this but recording directly towards her. Which turned out pretty good.

I was going to do the mirror scene here with my mother but I figured it would be diffucult to coordinate a time where everyone could. So I came up with a plan to make the scene look good. So here, in the mirror there were only two shots.  

This is how the shot initially look, I did not like how it looked so we fixed it:

After this, we went downstairs to do the work scene. I was deciding to whether show the girl packaging some things or working on the computer. I do both things, so I was choosing between those two. I work with my mother on Amazon and selling products. I help her packaging. sending and on the computer as well doing related things. However, I chose to do something simple here, I chose to work on the computer while taking some notes and look focused. This is supposed to be the first scene after the mirror scene and the beginning of the narration. However, I think that I will add something before. Like me driving or something like that, I will look at that tomorrow. 

For the boyfriend part, I was thinking of doing it with either my two guy best-friends. However, they could not make it.  I ended up doing it with the boyfriend of my best-friend's sister, Felipe. We are close as well, and I asked him the favor of being part of the film. It was getting late, it was about 6:30 pm so it was more dark. Due to this, I did not like the result. We tried to make it look good but the lighting and shadows were tough to manage at this time, I am not sure if I will add this scene. I will try to re-do it but I am not sure, I will keep you guys updated. However, I had fun, it started to rain after we finished and had to rush home    

 For the friend part, I included Felipe, Majo, Sofi (Majo's sister), and myself. I loved this, it is not the biggest group but I have a significant care and love towards them. Personally, I found it meaningful to have them there. In this scene, at the last minute I decided to show the group of friends playing a board game, called Parques. This is a coomon Colombian game, I remember we used to play this every Sunday in family, when I was in Colombia. Therefore, I found this even more meaningful. They are shown playing the game and interacting. Basically for this scene, I just put my phone to record and we were actually playing and having a conversation. I wanted it to be natural, as if the camera was not there.

My plan for the next filming day is to record my sibling's part at the park. If it is possible, I will be recording the part where Paula is by herself looking at the sunset, I will have to find a good view from the park or another place if that is possible.