THIRD Day of Filming!!

 Welcome back bloggers! In today's post, I will be talking all about our third day of filming for "Super"-Hero! This filming day, which took place on February 1st, was EXPONENTIALLY better than our first two, and this marked the beginning of a new leaf for us!

We've got... visitors?

He's got NO idea what's coming!

A prime target...

Moving forward from a DISASTROUS Day 2!

Going into the third day of filming, the atmosphere was certainly a lot different than it was the first day. After mediocre filming on the first day and purely abysmal takes from the second day, the entire team was DETERMINED to make the third day count. We knew we wanted the film to be done by the end of the weekend, and we were going to accomplish that goal at ALL costs. We had reviewed the storyboard and went right back to square one. We reshot the ENTIRE opening scene that we filmed on the first day, trying out new camera angles, new ideas, but most importantly we were making sure each shot was FINAL PRODUCT material. One thing we were able to begin working towards on this day that we failed to do the first day was that we began working towards fleshing out the comedy aspect of our film, instead of just making it act out like a generic robbery. In this, we did quite well, reutilizing the Homeowner to be a disruption in the tense mood evoked in the first few seconds of the film rather than getting knocked on the head and then completely forgotten about for the rest of the film. 

Our mortal enemy... Exhaustion.

Even though things had been going well for the first few hours, we ran into a HUGE roadblock when it came time to film the robbery scene. This roadblock, of course, was our total and complete exhaustion with filming multiple retakes of second-long scenes for hours on end. We began ignoring the initial storyboard and started experimenting with new ideas, a staggering NONE of which we decided to use. Additionally, the sun was beginning to set and it would have been awkward with the rest of our footage. With that in mind, we called it a day at 5pm with roughly 40% of the film being final product material. Originally we wanted to aim for finishing the ENTIRE film on Saturday and then doing reshoots Sunday, but this would've required us to either have started filming several hours earlier instead of the afternoon or get every single take perfect on the first try, neither of which were feasible for us. That night, we knew this film needed to be editing-ready by the end of Sunday, and also that we were on a much stricter time limit than we thought. In order to make Sunday our final filming day, we'd need to get every scene shot PERFECTLY within 5 hours before the sun began setting, and to push through our reshoot fatigue as best as we could, and in my next post, you'll see how we did exactly that.