Filming!!!

Hello! I’m so so so happy because my group and I finished filming!! It was amazing and I bet when we finish editing the movie, we’ll be happy with all the footage we got.

We had to film in two separate locations. One of the locations is supposed to be the “bad neighborhood” Enrique lives in.  We found this abandoned shack that looked broken down enough to look like a bad house.

These scenes consisted of the Interrogator arresting Enrique and reading his Miranda Rights. We purposefully ended the scene where the Interrogator says “...be held against you in a court of law,” to emphasize the fact that we are criticizing the court and its execution of the laws.

We literally spend around 2 hours filming this scene because we wanted to get the right angles, movements, noises (we recorded on voice memo the leaves crunching as he walks, the car door shutting, the handcuffs being put on,etc). It was hard work but after finally being content, we moved to the other location (aka Maria’s garage).

Meet are actors!!! (Jose aka Enrique, and Mark aka Mark the Interrogator)

We set up the scene to make it look like an interrogation. The table, light, chairs, and (even though we do not see it in the picture), a little window panel frame to make it look like we’re looking into an interrogation room.

The whole 6.5 hours was filled with laughs, stress, intensity and a whole bunch of repetition of the same scene at least four times. At one point, Mark started to feel sick and he had to go home, so Kaelin stepped in for him. It actually ran smoothly and the transition worked well.

Since there is not a whole lot going on, dialogue was our strong suit as well as the performance given by our actors. They got really into it, and Jose even hurt himself a little with the handcuffs when he slammed his hands down on the table.

Overall, the whole filming process was amazing and I couldn’t ask for a better day. Now, to edit and post the final production.

WOO!!!! I’ll be back!

Until then, keep watching!