Last day of filming

    Today is March 31 and we have finished filming. Today is Easter Sunday and many people celebrate today, Reeves being one of them. We agreed to meet at his grandparent's house at 1 pm to start shooting. Reeves's friend Rui, was supposed to play his part in the opening but he could not come today so my brother came to help us. Throughout the shooting, my brother (Daniel) assisted us by acting as the serial killer in the last scene.

This is Daniel (My brother)

    Furthermore, we had to change the script and make my brother the serial killer. We started by doing the waking up scene in the couch in the backyard, where Reeves, me and Rui fell asleep the previous shooting. Since Rui could not come we had to improvise so we made the idea that Rui gets attacked at night.  So since he got attacked at night, me and Reeves woke up without seeing Rui and we assume he left. Moreover, the next scene, we woke up and turned on the TV and found out there was a serial killer on the news and we did not think much of it.

    For the next scene, we ordered a LYFT to leave the party and come back to the house. All of this is taking place in the backyard and is being recorded by Jordan and my brother. Jordan has had a good amount of experience with the camera since as a side hustle he works as a photographer. Therefore, we thought that he would be the right person to help us film. However, this doesn't mean that he will be directing the whole film, Reeves and I made sure that we were the ones implementing the skills that we learned from our media studies class. Therefore, we told Jordan what angles, types of shots, movements, and compositions we wanted before filming. Then he would also give us some insight which would have Reeves and I decide if we wanted to implement whatever he suggested.

This is Jordan Perez (Camera Man)

We had to film many takes, I would say 5 takes for each shot. This was key to recording the right shot. This also lengthened today's shooting to about four hours. We are then picked up by the LYFT driver, who is acted by my brother. Once the characters entered the LYFT car they asked the driver some questions but he would not respond. The characters found this odd, then the driver pulls over by a forest and attacks the characters inside the car. In the next scene we cut to the serial killer (Daniel) dragging two big, black garbage bags and a pick axe into the forest. For this scene we did not want to show the attack directly, since our objective was to have the audience imagine how the characters were killed.