ITS OKAY! Hopefully...

Things worked out in the end! Well, not without a big scare, however...

I came back from my trip and checked up on Faye and whether we would be able to film the last shots we needed. In our heads, our opening is split into 5 parts:

• The introduction
• Peaceful Painting sequence
• Anxiety Painting sequence
• Title scene
• Fridge scene

The first day of filming, we knocked out 3/5, aka the intro and all the painting scenes. We needed the giant prop to be done to get the title scene, so that is what we filmed last. On Tuesday after my return, I went over to Faye's house and we shot the fridge scene, which for us is the device we use to indicate there's more to the story in the film, the "dot dot dot" of the film opening. 

Said fridge scene, to be used for about 10 seconds at the end of our opening.

We successfully got what we needed, and began to set up the shot for the title scene, with the painting looming over our main character. However, we were going to have to reshoot the scene anyway. Why? Well, my amazing, beautiful, lovely partner Faye worked on painting the 6ftx9ft canvas with all the paint and colors we imagined; however, she left it outside to dry and Tuesday morning, it rained.

The photo Faye sent me Tuesday morning, in distress because she thought it was ruined.

However, once I was at Faye's house, in it's dried state it was evident it was salvageable, and although it wasn't exactly what Faye envisioned, I believe it still captured the abstract art that I imagined. We didn't have command strips to hang it by the ceiling like we imagined, but Faye's mom brought out these tripods and clips used for a movie screen for projecting, that we were able to use to hang up the painting. 

The painting in its Tuesday state. Not perfect, but it works.

Ultimately, I had to go home, but I left my equipment with Faye so she could finish filming the next day. In the end, Faye didn't touch up the painting, so I think we could have finished filming on Tuesday, but our actress (aka Faye's little sister) was sleepy and tired regardless, so Wednesday it would be. 

Wednesday after school, I wasn't available to help Faye film, so I gave Faye the equipment, put my faith in her and God that she understood how to use it now that we had spent hours working with the equipment for the majority of the film opening, and hoped that nothing else tragic would happen.

And lo' and behold. We were done filming. Faye sent me over the takes she got and we had completed everything we needed. I got the equipment back from her the next morning, went about my school day, and we were officially out for Spring Break. We did it. 

Transition scene for the title graphic. Painting looking... good I think at least. 

I hope the people get it...

That's a wrap on production. Now it's time for post-production...