Time Session Write Up:

My biggest concern when making this movie was being able to create an entire narrative that makes sense and is fairly successful without using dialogue.  I want the actions of the characters themselves to drive the narrative.  My idea is the same as before, centering around two guys spending the morning making pancakes, detailing their exploits and efforts to end their hunger.

Above anything else, this first (and only) day filming my movie was a learning expierence. Throughout the course of directing, arranging lights with my crew, and trying my hardest to get the shots I wanted I could immediately tell what was working and what was not working within all of the storyboards, the planning, the script, and anything else I made prior.  Despite all my planning beforehand, there were a few on-the-fly revisions to my script due to some new ideas during filming that worked better for my movie. Nevertheless, the entire session went smoothly, even if it did take all day.

My actors did their job, and in my opinion, did their job well.  I was able to get exactly what I wanted from their performances.  Time will tell if it was enough to produce a fairly decent movie, but that is what digitizing tuesday is for.  I tried to follow the rules of filming and lighting, breaking them when necessary.  I do have a small worry that my lighting is not working in some scenes but am looking forward to seeing how my work looks tomorrow.

Due to the schedules of my actors (having school on the only day i could shoot, and being unavailable at any other time), I ended up filming all of one actor's shots first, and another actor's shots second.  Any shots with both of them together were filmed last.   Luckily, it is all planned, so editing will not take as long as it would otherwise.