Production Blog: Filming

Welcome back Camination!! In this blog I will be updating you guys on the filming of me and Katherine's short film. 

We have filmed for two days overall but today I will only be talking about the first day. We began filming February 14, 2024 after school. On this day we wanted to shoot all the scenes that Santiago was in since that was the only day we could see him. 

We started by setting up everything he would use in the scenes (markers and paper.) We had to explain to him that all he had to do was draw on the blank piece of paper. It took us a few tries for him to actually draw something that wasn't just scribbles so we ended up helping him. We drew multiple different things that were simple doodles of things like rainbows, cars, trees, and animals. 

For Santiago to know what to do we had my mom help explain to him since he is just a toddler. Although we had to redo many shots because he would get easily distracted. We were able to get some pretty good shots that we will be using. 

With the help of my sister we were able to shoot our establishing shot with the three of us (Katherine, Santiago, and I.) She was there to help us film all the scenes that included all of us. Since she isn't directly involved in the film she was giving us an outside perspective of the film and the scenes. 

Our goal for this day was to film all the scenes in which Santiago was in. This meant that we did not film any of the kitchen scenes nor the individual scenes. Since we weren't filming in chronological order, by the end we couldn't put the film together to see how it was looking. But we managed to get all the scenes we wanted. 

This wraps up our first day of filming! On the next blog I will be talking about our second and last day of filming. Thank you for staying updated with my process!!

This is a photo of Santiago who is the star of our film:)