Production Day 2

Second Production Day, Recording the First Scene

 Heeeey!

Today… I’m happy. I’m reaaaaally happy. I FINALLY RECORDED THE FIRST PART!! (Because the other thing I recorded was the second part). It went SUPER-DUPER good, and I actually think that I won’t have to remake any of the shots. There were some obstacles, like time (again), but this time was different, I got there too early, and I only had 1 hour to record. But I’ll get into that further in this blog

Preparation

For the costuming, Maverick had to wear a white shirt, but it had to be really dirty, and it had to appear that it had blood. To do this, I basically rolled the shirt in the dirty ground to make it look messy and dirty. 

After that, when I was happy with the result, I grabbed some sauces (ketchup, and spicy sauces (Tapatio)) and carefully applied them on the shirt. At first I was only using ketchup, but I didn’t like the concistency and color, so I went to my fridge, to see what else I could use, and found that sauce (that’s why in the video, there’s a part where I’m walking around my home). I liked very much how that hot sauce looked on the shirt, so I did two stains and concluded that the shirt was ready

MAKEUP

My dad was working on his computer, so when I tried to do the makeup, it was a little bit difficult, but I managed to make it look good, and I personally thought that it looked realistic, and that even though in that video it looks too dark, on the shooting the lightning was different, so I think that it worked perfectly, but of course, I haven’t yet edited the shots, so there may be some future complications, but I don’t think that there will be.

Problems 

We had to leave my house at 5:55 PM to arrive at the church at approximately 6:05 PM, and my dad had a meeting at 6:45, so we only had 40 minutes to record + set up everything. The problem is that the sunset is at 6:15, but it doesn’t get dark until later, so I had to start recording at 6:25, and finished recording at 6:45. When I started recording, there was plenty of light, but when I finished, the light was almost dark, so I don’t know if the contrast is going to be too big, but I’ll try to edit the videos, and fix the lighting if needed.

Another “problem” was that I forgot that on Thursday, there’s a holy hour, in where people go to the church at 7 PM to do an adoration, and that before that there is a youth group meeting, so yes, the parking lot was pretty crowded, and I got nervous, because I didn’t want to record with that many people, but then my dad told me that I wouldn’t be the one embarrassed, but he was going to be, so we laughed at it and just recorded.

Spot

When I got to the church, as I said before, it was a little bit crowded, and that means that the parking lot was also crowded, and when I got there, I got scared, because I thought that we were going to shoot on the bushes, which are full of mosquitoes, but that was not the case, because my dad had the idea of recording near some construction stuff. I hadn’t noticed it before, like I knew they were there, but I never cared about it, but when I thought about shooting with that as a background, I loved the idea, since what I needed was basically to shot a guy who appears to be kidnapped, and I tink that that background is much better than a parking lot. 

That’s it for today, but I’m already working on the next blog, so stay tuned!