"...poop..."

 Shooting went pretty great this time. No real issues, I just did a little less than I liked but its fine cause I can just make up for it tonight, which is hopefully the last day of filming. 

I picked up from the very beginning, and I'm pretty much filming chronologically from here on out. So it was the eating scene in the parking lot. Unfortunately, the location I wanted wasn't available BUUUTTT on the way to get the edible props (just a Mcdonalds burger and drink) my actors pointed out a good location that would work great, so we went with that. 

Heres us at McDonalds getting our edible props

So once getting to the backup parking lot, we set up and started shooting. I had them practice in the car on the way over, pretty much doing a little table read, so that once we go to the real deal, it would be quick and easy. I forgot my printed out shortlist and script (again) but its fine since I had it on my phone. Just feels so much more conclusive when I actually check it off on paper. But everyone's lines went pretty smoothly. I haven't directed people in a while, so it was fun and also challenging to explain how I wanted the lines delivered and how the actors should react throughout a scene. I've gotten so used to working with actors that just know exactly how the character would speak and react, and I've taken it for granted to be honest. Even with the cult member, Wesley, he picked up on the lines immediately had was perfect with the role. With my friends playing the other two roles, Andre and Aiden, I definitely have to direct them much more in the way that they say lines and how much emotion they needed for any given scene. So that was definitely a challenge for me, but I think they did well. I'm gonna put it all together soon, just to make sure everything is ok and we don't need to reshoot anything. 

Once we were done with the first scene, we moved into the car, which is one of the things I was most worried about, mainly in terms of lighting. But I honestly think it looks good. As good as it can for a car scene. It’s just a balance of seeing what looks too dark and what looks like I have a light directly behind the camera. Also another thing I'm sorta scared about is the background cause we were driving around an empty parking lot for safety purposes, so I'm scared you'll be able to tell in the shots, but I think since the attention will mainly be on the characters, it won't be a huge deal. It's also night and just dark as hell out so I don't know. Thats another thing I have to look at once I edit. Here's some more behind the scenes below.

But overall, the shoot went well. It was definitely challenging with just a 4 man crew consisting of 3 actors and me but we managed. It was a blast to film just because of how absurd the script it. There are multiple times when we were just dying laughing trying to record a scene and it just reminds me why I do what I do. 

On the way back, Bryan, the main actor, started playing around with making the fake "hot biscuit" song. Just to preface, he has been making beat on bandlab for years now and is ridiculously talented, he'll make beats from nothing, its crazy. Anyway, we were trying to come up with the flow of the song on the way to the shoot since they had to sing it in the scene, and on the way back Bryan was actually making it. Heres a clip of the below lol. 

We were joking about having the full version of the song in the credits, and I honestly really liked that idea since it ends with them singing the song anyway, so I'll probably do that. 

So, I'm gonna make a rough draft of the edit real quick just to make sure everything is ok and looks and sounds good, and then tonight I'm filming the homeless scene, running out of gas, and coming back from cult so hopefully everything turns out ok. It should be the last day of shooting, so I am excited.