Location and Film Plan

I was able to meet up at Faye's house this past week to begin working on our big prop, but we were also able to create a plan for the actual day of filming. We made changes to our schedule as well. 

First, we decided to accurately account for how much time we need to finish our pre-production planning, which would go into next week. Because of this, we made a big change to the film schedule. Since we want to take advantage of the large amount of natural lighting the room provides in the day, we decided to try and film all the opening on Sunday, from 10am-3pm, that way A) we have a better control of lighting B) there's less risk for continuity errors in the set and camera if we film on one day and C) it works better for our schedules in terms of availability. Depending on how it goes on Sunday, we will decide on back-up days to finish filming, but so far it seems like that could be the 19th or 22nd.

Going to Faye's house also allowed me to see the environment and begin planning how to film. We are going to need to deconstruct Faye's living room, basically, in order to set up our main character's area. Faye wanted a focus on natural lighting for our artist, so we plan to set up her art easel against the large window pictured in the image. We will move the couches out of the living room, but keep and utilize the coffee table to establish a little bit about the character. We're hoping to litter the short table with art supplies and messy, random junk to show that she is a little bit messy, and not completely put together. Even a pan of the coffee table would be one of the first shots of the opening, and I had thought that maybe she could walk by it and we could reveal a credit after she walks past it, using a masking tool in premiere pro.

We were very productive with our time together working on the opening, we just need a couple more things before we're ready to film, and I believe we can get a lot done in the time we have set for ourselves.