First day of filming




 Today was the first day my group and I filmed. One of our group members was not able to be there filming with us so I filled in for her. She had the role of one of the two main friends and originally, I had the mother role. This made us change roles and I had to play one of the 2 friends since our group member couldn't make it. We filmed at a park at around 3:30 pm. When I first arrived, while waiting for my friends, I went over my lines. There were not many lines to memorize so it was not too dificult. However, while filming, new line ideas came to me and we decided to change some of the lines. One of the lines, for example, was my first line. In this line, I greet my "new" friend. We changed it to make it more casual and teenage like. We didn't want it sounding too formal since we are playing young teenagers. Besides that, I memorized my lines pretty well and there weren't many mess ups. What I did encounter some difficulty with was getting into character. The lines weren't hard to pronounce but my character was supposed to emphasize happiness and excitement. This was somewhat difficult for me as I tried to sound and look the most authentic that I possibly could but it sometimes came out wrong. Scenes where I had to have a big bright smile on or pretend like I was laughing. I also had to work with hand gestures, which was in some cases easy but in others difficult. In a certain scene, my friend was supposed to look depressed and mysterious but I, on the other hand, had to look excited, and express it with my hand gestures but it was a bit hard because of how my friend was acting towards me and there wasn't really anything exciting to talk about. All in all, everything came out well and our first day of filming our thriller was a success. 



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