Second day of filming for "Super-Hero": What went wrong?

 Welcome back bloggers. Today, I will be discussing our first serious challenge with filming for our movie opening, "Super-Hero". As discussed in the blog where I described our first day of filming, our second day of filming was scheduled for January 17th, but a string of untimely events foiled our plans.

Other photos from Day 2:

Power-Man gets a little sloppy with remembering to wear his mask sometimes!

What goes on inside his head?

Live footage of a robber about to witness his operation go completely south!

    Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances that were revealed to me just hours before filming, I was going to be unable to film for an unknown amount of time. On top of that, we had found out days prior that one of our group members was going to be gone the whole weekend. With these sudden occurrences, my group decided that they would try to make the most out of what little resources they had available to try and film SOMETHING for January 17th. We had even come up with an emergency plan where we'd drop the cast to include either only 2 robbers or to remove the Homeowner as a character in case my absence was longer than expected. With all that in mind, filming continued with a group member missing. Luckily, we were all dressed for filming already (me included), so my group was able to set up fairly quickly. Additionally, we kept all the props on location so that we wouldn't lose anything between filming days. With all this in mind, you'd think we'd be able to adapt to unexpected circumstances easily right?

 Wrong. Day 2 of filming for my group ended up being a TOTAL and COMPLETE disaster. For starters, our filming took place after a school day, so we were exhausted and didn't have the same energy going into filming as we did the first day. As such, they were only able to manage a few takes before getting fed up and worn out. Additionally, remember the mis-en-scene I discussed from my post about lighting? Since it was late in the day and the sun was setting, we had to turn on the lights in the house because the footage got too dark, which just made our scenes look awkward on playback. Finally, we realized that having only 2 robbers just didn't feel right at all for the film itself, and that a third criminal was absolutely necessary for what we were envisioning. With that, my group called it a day fairly quickly into our scheduled time, and we decided it was no use.

    So what happens now? The good news is, we have a new film date ready, that being February 1st and 2nd. We aren't letting one bad string of events stop us from getting this opener filmed to completion. We decided that filming on weekends was our absolute best move to make, since it was obvious after-school filming hindered us too much. The other good news is, the scene we were filming was right after where we left off on Day 1, so when we get back the robbery scene should be done in very few takes. Finally, of course, we'll have a full cast ready to go this time. Power-Man may not be super, but we sure are! And we'll prove it by moving on from this blunder and making Day 3 our strongest filming day yet!