Production blog: Crash!

 Today at the old neighborhood we filmed the scene where the character tragically gets hurt in a car accident. This plot of our story is supposed to give the character Nathalie a sense of remorse for the way she treated her friend. Hoping a sense of loss gives her a change of heart toward her selfish behaviors. To do this scene, I had Alexi that has a car drive toward the camera. This took multiple shots, each having different techniques for example the first was just a slow stop but the others combined a honk or a harsh stop. To create the allusion of a car accident without harming each other---we did not actually film a car hitting one of our teammates ( disclaimer) --- I had POV shots of the character acting like they got bumped by the car. To create this I filmed a slow motion of what happens, shooked the camera in the falling motion, filmed inside of the car, and had the actor act out falling. To avoid any danger I made sure to not get too close to the car if any accidents happen, I specifically found places where we could safely fall on not the road but the soft grass and filmed on the sides of a neighborhood non-busy road. 

For the next scenes, we filmed my character being regretful for treating her friend in a harsh way. For this scene, we found a park to film. this park was a few minutes walk from the old neighborhood. Even though I had people watching me act, I still tried to remain professional. I started out acting sad on the benchs being remorseful of the way I used to treat my friend. this involved me crying, shaking my head and sadly looking into the distance. Then for dramatic effect I dropped to my knees in sadness. After I filmed the therapist scene, however, one of our teammate that was supposed to be the therapist was not present. So we made the plan of a virtual therapist meeting this involved having my scene in the park with Kennedy ---the therapist--- scene being home or wherever she could film. We are going to have her send her take online to add to the film.