Production Blog: re-film


     For our second scene at the "valley mall," we had to re-film because when I was editing I noticed that the audio was not very clear. So for this filming day, we are back at the mall to re-shoot the mall scene. This re-shoot was essentially trying to retrace what we originally filmed in quieter locations. for example instead of Macy's which had a Starbucks near the entrance we moved to jcpenny or Dillard's to film those parts. For the scene where Natalie sees her friend Julie, we moved to the back of the store a quieter location than the entrance of the store. after filming the inside scenes we head toward the outdoors. This is where I shoot the establishing shots of the mall and the theater entrance. This was done with a downward tilt showing me walking into the mall. Since today our teammate was here to film with us we took the opportunity to film the therapy scene with her. This took place on the outside bench of the mall. I acted out as Natalie redoing the scene I had previously done the other filming day. Overall filming today went well! After filming we decided to cruise around the mall looking for things we might want to buy. We headed to the dining court to grab a bit to eat, I had the mango drink which was made from mangos cut up and then blended in front of you. Which was really good.

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