First Day of Filming!

Today was our first day of filming, I would say it went very well. We filmed the part where Juan wakes up and heads to the bathroom.

First, we set the room up to look like a boy's room. We threw a few shirts on the floor, some nunchucks, and even some underwear. 

Before filming, we did some final research and decided to begin the scene with some b-roll. We decided on a close-up, the camera maneuvering through all the dirty clothes leading up to his sleeping face. The character then opened his eyes and sat up, here we switched to a medium shot of the character sitting on the bed. Then we included the close up of his legs walking that I believe I have mentioned before. This will later be used as a graphic match with Layla's legs. We then moved on to the bathroom shots. We set up one of Juan's lights to act as a light and began filming.

The first shot is a medium shot of the mirror, Juan walks up, enters the frame creating an over the shoulder shot. This is where the character realizes he is in a guys body and screams. Juan screams and the screen turns black.

The next few shots are of Juan panicking/ figuring out what to do. First, there is a close up examining himself in the mirror, then a sequence of him figuring out how to pee. For this sequence we changed the light set up to this:

 

Juan began by lifting and putting the toilet seat down undecidedly because the character was unsure whether to sit down or stand up. Then, when the character decided to sit down, we used a water bottle to spray water all over the place to make it look like the girl didn't know how to pee as a guy.

This is where we left off today, tomorrow, Layla will be able to film and we will do her part. In the next post, I will talk about some problems we ran into during today's filming.