TIME. something we yearn so much that can be rather useless in certain situations. I finally got to shoot the friend scene, and let me tell you it was a challenge. Finding three people that were allowed out and could shoot with me was incredibly difficult. I also felt quite guilty asking. Like we're in the middle of a pandemic and I'm asking people to risk their lives and their families to help me make a school project, seems rather silly then. But thankfully, two friends were willing to help me out, since the risk was going to be minimal. I decided to act as the protagonist, for the accessibility factor. That way I literally only needed other people for this scene, and the parent scene, which I was planning on doing with my parents any way. I decided to switch the hula hoop with a coin. I had it at home, and she could be fiddling with it while the friends talked. The scene was about highlighting the privilege of the friends in contrast with the issues the character was having. I wasn't able to check on site if I had everything because we were in a time constraint, and I also forgot my storyboard at home. For the equipment, thankfully my classmate Jonathan lend me his tripod, and I just used my Nikon with my 35mm lense. We were supposed to shoot at Markham, but we realized it was closed... so we went to vista which was also closed... so we drove to Peace Mound but the table area was also closed ! so we shot at some stairs that we made sure to disinfect prior to shooting. It felt wrong to shoot. I wasn't excited and I was worried the entire time that I was being selfish. I don't know it just didn't feel right. But I did it and we got the shots. Here are some of my favorites:
NEED to find the perfect spot! I recently moved from my house ahead of schedule because of Corona. I was supposed to be moving this coming week, and being done with filming by then too. So, all the locations I was going to use for the home scenes, was supposed to be around my old neighbourhood, and since I was unfamiliar with what was surrounding me, and also I was pretty freaking bored, I got on my bike, grabbed the camera, and started shooting the spots I liked.
I found some pretty good places to shoot at and I'm pretty excited, but I still have a lot to figure out before shooting. The city might go into lockdown soon so I have to get to work. I also have to make the changes of the what to do about the kid scenes, who to use for the friend soon and consider my friends parents might have changed their mind about them going out, and also the guidance counselor thing. I'm thinking of using an email and my house for the guidance counselor thing, that while it isn't ideal, it will have to make due. For the kids, I'm thinking of using the same character getting stuck in the merry go round or maybe an object instead of the kid, and for the other kid and the hula hoop, having the character get distracted herself. Again not as dramatic or cool how I wanted but it will have to do. st!
I am finally going to shoot Saturday!!! Since I can't go thrift shopping I was super worried about what I was going to do about the clothes, so I decided to do this mood board to see if me and my friends could come up with the clothes from our stuff.
I wanted to go with a modern eccentric look for each, to reflect teenagers today. I also wanted to contrast the laid back styles of the friends with the sweeter more put together style of the protagonist. I also decided that I wanted the friends to be smokers. As a metaphor to the irresponsibility behavior they have, that she does not partake in with them, they are more careless and irresponsible with their lives and their choices altogether, and since the scene is pretty short I thought it was a good way to use the cigarettes as symbolism. I drew the styles from shows like Euphoria, because it was a show that was very good at giving each character an individual unique style. I wanted to make sure they were individual and exaggerated, also a little like Wes. I'm super excited to see what we and my friends can come up with for the wardrobes! st!
