Filming Day Uno

Hey guys! Today was a very, very long day of filming and I pretty much just got home. I am super tired, but anyways... It was a great day and we got a handful of footage! I am so excited to share it with you guys, but with what's left of today I sort of want to reflect on how it went. Although it was great, we did endure some obstacles, but we quickly overcame them. 
I want to start off with what we did as soon as we got to the Brickell City Center. 

First, we walked around the area because none of us had ever been there before, so we felt and looked like tourists. We had backpacks and purses and a camera on us so I am pretty convinced we looked like tourists. As we walked around, we looked for ideal spots for filming and a bathroom so Dani could change to start filming. We decided to go with the green top outfit because it looked the best out of both. Presto! We were ready to start filming. 

We still walked around to see where we could start and realized that we were lost so we looked at the list of shots we made to make sure we had a backbone of what to do. The first one on our list was to do an establishing shot of the Brickell area, so we went to the edges of the mall and shot that. After that, we wasted a little time deciding on what to do next that would show our character in her everyday life. Like we had talked about it before we decided it would be perfect to go to a little cafe where she would go and drink coffee on one of her shopping days. We went to a little cafe called Santa Fe and filmed our main character drinking coffee and catching up with her friends on her phone. We focused a lot on body language because we are planning on doing a voice over of her explaining her life before and after he father's situation. Also, because we thought it was a good way for the audience to really capture the essence of her personality. Anyways... it was a little embarrassing filming there because everyone was watching us and we got the cafe staff involved, but it was fun. 

Then, we went to go film some more around the mall and some stores. We took some shots of Dani at Saks Fifth Avenue looking at the clothes and of her strolling by other expensive stores. As well as, shots of some of the store fronts like we got inspired by in From Prada to Nada. We still focused on the body language since she was not going to be verbally speaking. Then, we continued to film on the streets around the mall for a little while to see what else we could add in our film opening that would be useful. After that, our only issue was seeing how we were going to get home, but we figured it out and now I am ready to go to sleep. 

Overall it was fun and nice seeing everything we got done. I won't say anything else, but here are some pictures of today! 

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