Productivity at its Finest

I'm writing this blog within hours of our shoot today, so my thoughts may be scattered. In one weekend, we as a film crew successfully did the following:

• Meet with our grandma actors
• Photoshoot for our film poster
• Launch our Indiegogo campaign
• Interview our mothers
• Shoot our narrative mother scene

When shot our film poster. The concept for the poster was to shoot the grandma actors in the same setting as our high school scene to go along with our, "High School Never Ends" subtitle. This was a fun time and was a fun way to spend time with our grandma actors.

In the early afternoon we interviewed our mother subjects. The verbal content that was spoken was incredible! The answers and discussion they provided was more than we could have ever wished for. This will surely be a challenge to cut down.

Artistically and Conceptually, our mom scene was a challenge. Because we were dealing with 4 separate continuous takes all in frame at the same time - we had to get our audio synced first. This means that we mic'd up all our actors, recorded the dialogue first, and then shot the scenes while the actors lip-synced their lines. This process was very time-consuming when it was time for the actors to lip-sync, but we hope the aesthetic and style of the scene will all be worth it!

Now we have shot half of our material! (not including the teenage scene reshoots). Now we are exhausted, but hey, fall break could not have come at a better time.