Filming day

   Today was filming day. It went way better than I expected it to go. I thought it was going to be hard but with the help of my group members our filming process was pretty easy. All of our group members dressed out. I was in regular clothes because I played the role of Jarvia and Lauren's mother. Anishca dressed in all black and played the role of a McDonalds employee. Lastly, Jarvia and Lauren dressed as children and played the role of two excited little girls. We came into the classroom and filled out a paper to check out our camera. While we were doing that, Anishca showed us our lines and the order of the scenes we were going to shoot today. We  didn't really have a script because we chose to do improv. Although we were doing improv we still wrote up a small script so that we would have some kind of idea of what to say.
   After we checked out a camera,tripod, and a SD card we immediately headed to the senior patio. Once we were there we had to decide on a location. We all agreed that we wanted somewhere with shade but not too much shade. Our faces had to be seen in the camera and there had to some type of lighting. We sat on a bench that had an umbrella. We placed the camera in front of us so that we will be able to be seen by the camera and be in the shade at the same time. The first scene that we recorded was scene 2. In scene 2 I was walking into McDonalds with my children while they were laughing with one another. We took at least 6 or 7 takes. We had to keep re doing takes because we kept laughing but eventually we got a few good takes. After we completed filming scene 1 we moved onto the next scene. In the next scene I had a close up. I was basically looking away from the camera and acting like I was speaking to our waitress.
   After my close up we filmed the last scene two scenes. The last two scenes were of us  ordering our food. The waitress explained what was on the menu and we ordered a happy meal. After that scene we recorded the scene where the children were showing each other their toys. Once we filmed all of the scenes we headed back to the room to dump our footage. We accomplished a lot today. The only thing left for us to do is record the establishing shot outside of a McDonalds building .