Filming

Welcome back!

Honestly I am so happy on how our project has come up so far! We are right on schedule and filming has gone great.

Last weekend my group and I began filming. Like I had said in my last post, my grandpa was in California and got back yesterday morning. So today we plan on finishing up filming and hopefully start editing by the end of this week.

But... let’s talk about how our filming went!

So this past weekend we started by filing my friend Leah and her grandpa, Zeyda (Zayda is his nickname). When we arrived to his home we realized we had one major major problem.... the lighting. Zeyda lives in a small town house by himself around Bonaveture. His home however is extreamly dark. It’s almost as if he lives in a man cave.

We started by moving around the camera turning on lights, trying to get the perfect lighting in order to actually film. Than we found a spot that somewhat worked and we agreed that if anything, we would just edit the footage to increase the lighting.

Now, let me tell you... Zeyda honestly did an AMAZING job. We told him that the more he spoke the better, because we all know the more footage the better. And that’s exactly what he did! He spoke so well about everything and awnsered our questions throughly. We honestly couldn’t have picked a better person to film. The best part of him though is the fact that he in general is a very goofy and happy old guy and this same personality was something we were able to catch on camera. This is exactly what we were looking for.

After asking him our questions we interviewed my friend, Leah. In order to try and get a different kind of setting, we decided filming outside on the  footsteps of the home would be perfect. The lighting was also very good and she too was very helpful with answering the questions.

Until next time!