Sunday

yesterday was our first production day. i got up early in the morning at about 6am+ and went over the betty's place to get her ladder, tent and some snacks for the day, before going over the mt.vernon alone (because betty had to pick up the cast at a later time) and meeting shol at 7am. andrea didn't reach at 7am because she had to unload some stuff off the van that we didn't need that we had put in the day before, so that she could load up some stuff that we did need, like a bicycle. so in the meantime, shol and i discussed about some of the shots for the day. when andrea arrived we set up the easy up and tent (production still will be included in the final submission package) and when the cast arrived we went for the shoot.

we faced quite a bit of problem with the sunlight, as it kept changing and most of the time we didn't have the light that we wanted, so we ended up finishing the running sequence at around 12pm, which was way past our schedule. what's more the light wasn't appropriate, so we ended up deciding to reshoot the whole sequence provided we have the time.

next sequence was the tree stump shot. we initially wanted a log for this scene, but like what andrea had said in yesterday's post, we couldn't find any, so we used a log instead. we didn't had much problem with aloysius, cause i guess he's quite used to acting already, with jem using him so much for his shoots. hazel on the other hand was quite hard to handle. being 10 this year, her attention span i super short, and she is super playful, so we ended up having a super hard time, but all in all, she was quite perfect for our role, so we can't really complain. the light kept changing over time though, i just hope in editing we might be able to salvage some of the shots for this one.

the stump scene however, went over time again, and we ended up being unable to shoot not much of other things, because the light was going down, so we decided to pick up the camera, bring the kids to the middle of a grassy field and got them to play with each other. they didn't seem to mind that we were recording, or at least aloy didn't. i'm not sure if hazel knew were shooting though.

all in all, the day was quite an eventful one, but at the end of the day we had a little bit of a scare, cause apparently the situation wasn't fully explained to hazel's parents, and i guess that's our fault, so her mother was quite unhappy about it and was unwilling to let us use her again. but thanks in much to shermin, hazel's cousin, we managed to convince her to allow us to use her, so thank God we don't have to reshoot totally everything.

-JY