Production Blog: Filming Our Opening Sequence

Hey bloggers, today we will begin filming for our opening sequence. It took quite a bit of time for all of us to find a day were we were all available. We finally came together yesterday afternoon and we filmed the first storyboard of our opening sequence. I had actually updated our storyboard a few days ago in order to add more length to our opening sequence. We all decided to wear stereotypical pajamas with sleepy caps and eye covers. We also had to come up with who would eventually be the main character of our sequence. This decision was also mostly based on who was the most comfortable when the camera and attention was on them. We also faced some climate troubles as it was really windy and cold in Florida during this time. This made it very hard to leave the house to film as some of us got sick during this time. One day, we all finally met together at my house and got to work with our filming. The first few scenes were straight forward and simple to film. Where we ran into issues was the making breakfast part of the first storyboard. Managing the cooking of the eggs and the bacon while also filming and using various angles made the filming particularly challenging. We were also trying to be safe while filming, but this was pretty hard. The eggs kept on launching hot oil all over us while we were trying to film, we tried lowering the heat but the sizzling was no longer audible. The oil would also splash on the camera we were using and would blur the video. We decided to use a tripod to film and get through it fast. The food was also a challenge because we could not take too much time filming as the food would burn, which would also be a waste of money. We did get to eat it afterwards, which was the fun part. It was pretty enjoyable. Thank you so much for reading, see you in my next blog!