Filming!

Filming

    Update its week six, and we finally got actors to begin filming this week!! I am super excited because the scenes my partner and I filmed actually came out really nice, and I am starting to see our vision come to life which is a great feeling. We started filming on Tuesday, February 24th and continued filming today Thursday, February 26th. So far, we have all the main scenes done. All we are missing for our film opening is to include the picture frames of the sibling photos of Verena and Janus. 

    We came to the realization this is something that will get done this weekend or the beginning of next week because we were only able to take all of those pictures today since my friend, who I recruited to be the original brother Janus, was only available today. However, I don't see this as a problem because this is something Manuela and I can do on our own and won't take long.

Day 1 of filming:  

    We met up around 6pm this day that way it would be dark outside for the dinner scene. Instead of going in order of filming, we focused on the dinner scene because we weren't sure if our actors (playing Verena and Janus) could film another day this week, that way we got the dialogue and main portion of our opening out of the way. For the actual filming process, we borrowed a tripod to stabilize the dinner scene, which turned out great. 

Here is a picture of us setting up the table with props like the cooked mac and cheese, Publix apple pie, candles from my house, flowers, table cloth, bowls, and utensils.

Here is me going over the dialogue with our actors. I wanted them to understand how we envisioned the scene to go, specifically with facial expressions and certain pauses so this was an important part of the process.

    Overall, this filming day was successful and spend a couple hours filming. This day we didn't rush the process, which allowed us to play around with different lightning and angle techniques.

Here are some more behind the scenes photos I took:

Day 2 of filming:

    Today, we finished the rest of the scenes and took a bunch of different photos for Verena and Janus. Today my friend came to take pictures pretending to be the Verena's actual brother who had passed away. That way in our credit scene we have two different "brothers" and perspectives flashing back and forth between photos, creating that suspense that the thriller genre is known for.

Here we also filmed a short clip of the house for our establishing shot, this is where we will be putting our title "The Seventh Lie." 

Both days were successful in filming and I can't wait to start editing!