HOO HA

 Guys we did it. WE DID IT. WE FINALLY. FINALLY FINISHED FILMING. Oh my goodness im telling you now the entire thing has been a very fun, overwhelming, enjoyable, crazy mess of an experience that if I had to the opportunity to go back, I would NEVER do so. Being with my friends and making an insane movie with them is cool but Emi can only take so much cortisol. I am so ready to get this over with. And not even in a mid way NO NO this is going to be PEAK. 4 days left? STFU! IVE BEEN THEOUGH THIS BEFORE IVE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFORE I CAN GET THROUGH THIS. WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS

GGRHRGAHAHAHAHAHAHAGATDTTNYTJGHRTKKREOJSWJ WE’RE ALMOST THERE EVERYBODY.

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i LOVE this shot

This entire long weekend that I had we have spent FILMING FILMING FILMING AND FILMING. We reshooted scenes, we re did audio, and we shot and finished up a whole 3 other scenes. ALL IN THE SPAN OF 72 HOURS. I AM STILL EXHAUSTED AND WILL FOREVER BE EXHAUSTED. HERE'S A QUICK LITTLE RUNDOWN BEFORE I DIE 

HOO HA: FILMING DAY WHATEVER PART 1 (FRIDAY)

You may remember this little fact from a couple posts ago, but the car shots that we had for Otto and Mable at the beginning of our film were kinddaaa poopoo! Especially Otto's! She was out of focus! And so, to fix this up and make our lives easier while editing, myself, Joaquin, and Isa met up at about 6pm on Friday at the Indian Trace Plaza to reshoot the scene and then move on to Joaquin's house and get some Mable shots for the finale since the time we had with her left was limited and we need to squeeze out as much of it as possible :D! The reshooting of the car scene went pretty quick and we got it in done just in time as the sun was already going down and inviting us to film some of the finale scenes! Here are the brand new car shots compared to the old ones for you folks that haven't seen my editing post yet!

oldd otto shot

newww otto shot

olddd mable shot

newww mable shot!

By the time we got to Joaquin's house it was like 8PM which meant we had one more hour left to get a lot of Mable shots before she had to boogie at 9PM. That day we focused mainly on the shots after Mable shoots the devil with her TOTALLY NOT NERF GUN THAT EMI JUST PAINTED BLACK

lol i forgot to mention that

i keep thinking we're like not allowed to talk about guns here and stuff but uhh cambridge! I made a nice lil cool gun! :D By only using an old nerf gun owned by my brother, putting a lot of black construction paper over it, taping it all, and then finally completing everything with a nice fresh coat of black paint! It wasn't perfect of course, but it looked real to the point my parents were like "emi BE CAREFUL bro" so it was a success :]! If you're concerned about what my parents said to me, do not worry your little self my lovely flying cupcake monkey! Throughout the entire Mable shoot, we made it very clear to Joaquin's neighborhood that the gun we had out WAS JUST FOR A MOVIE. We yelled it, we danced around, we jumped up and clicked our heels, ANYTHING TO NOT GET INTO TROUBLE! 

Then we filmed and got some really sick ass shots :D I cannot thank my bestie westie Isa enough for taking on the role of Mable and mogging the ENTIRE time. This isn't something she normally does, and the amount of care she put into her role surprised both Joaquin and I! Isa, if you're seeing this, you're the GOAT. G-O-A-T. THANK YOU SIGMA

THIS IS SO SICK.

After a couple really cool shots, it was already like 9:20PM so that meant Isa had to book it! She didn't have a car available for her to use that day, so I took her home and eventually got back at about almost 10PM :D Friday was a success! We got some really awesome reshoots and some GREAT finale scenes that will take a while for me to get over.

HOO HA: FILMING DAY WHATEVER WHATEVER (SATURDAY)

We got Mable for this one again to fully complete her night scenes along with reshooting some Issac scenes and redoing some audio for it :D! I don't think I've ever told you guys yet, but the day after I believe filming day 3, I checked and listened to every single piece of audio to ensure nothing was tweaking out but then found out (to my despair) that some audio was MISSING! THE BATTERY FOR MY MICS WENT OUT! DUN DUN DUNNN! I obviously freaked out a little bit over this but knew deep down that it would be okay in the end cause it's just audio and can be fixed easily with enough care and precision :] So with this in mind, Joaquin and Isa came over to my house at about 5PM to reshoot and re do audio for the Issac scene! 

I bought out my computer to show Joaquin what I had for the line edit so far and show what shots specifically we needed to reshoot to make the scene even better and eliminate any bad, boring shots. I say the shots that we ended up getting came out pretty awesome! :D I like them 10x better than how they were before. There's more movement, better lighting, and better composition so this was a win in my book! Here are some of the shots I'm talking about:

what the helly is going on here

kane and mable

gahhh my nose gahh

After we got all these lovely Issac reshoots, we went to Joaquin's car and just chilled there for a bit until the sun began to go down! Once it did, we revved up the car and went on our way to Joaquin's house to finish up all of Mable's shots ONCE AND FOR ALL! Isa's official last day of acting in The Scourge was beginning to come to a lovely close, and once I released that I got a lil teeny tiny bit sentimental cause man bro filming this thing with my bestie westie by my side has been SO fun. Genuinely, I don't think I would have enjoyed filming this project as much as I did if it weren't for my best friend being there :] We finished off the day by filming the shot of Mable getting dragged away by Annie after Otto kills her with her gun.

We also got a close of shot of Otto holding Annie's glasses to add to the coolness and context of the scene :D I really love this shot and how dark it is, it definitely holds up with the aesthetic and brand that we aimed to create, and with color correction it'll be even more awesome! After this entire shoot, we could confidently say that we had half of the finale done along with the entirety of the Issac scene 100% complete! All we need now was to finish up the finale with the Otto, Annie, Issac parts and film the Otto and Annie interaction scene at the beginning of our film. Things began to really look up, and we were SO excited to be near to completion and finish everything off once and for all on Sunday!

ok lol thats funny cuz

HOO HA: FILMING DAY GAHFAHHAHGFAHFGAFHAHGAHGHA (SUNDAY)

This day was expected to be the FINAL day of shooting and obviously because of that we all pulled up to Joaquin's house excited and SO ready to just FINISH THIS. FOREVER. This whole thing was so exhausting for all of us so we were seriously expecting a huge sense of relief and joy after the filming day. And I'll say! The day surely had its ups! Joaquin told me some good news as soon as I got to their place, telling me that they got Renn to be the passerby that get's run over by the car in the car scene! YAY! It was nice having my best buddy over to help out, it was very fun :D We  finished all of Renn's scenes at approximately 5:30 and sent him on his way to go to a friend's house since he needed to be there by exactly 5:30 BAHHAHA that was funny.

 

After Renn left, Joaquin, Andrew and I, finished up the rest of the car scene shots that included Otto and Annie talking to each other about actuall bullcrap. I'd say we wrapped it up pretty quick and I'm happy with the results that we got but one very small minor issue was that we ended filming the car scene at about 6:45PM when we knew we had limited time to head over to the church before the sun went down to film the Otto and Annie talking scenes from the beginning. GAHHH IT WAS A WHOLE THING. First we had to go to my house to print out a better version of Annie's in-universe postcard which took a little bit, I'd say up until 7:30, then we had to go back to the church and find a good parking spot which also took a little bit because it was the lovely holiday of Easter and that meant the church was packed. Once we finally found a spot, we began to immediately gather everything to quickly head over to the outside of the church but to our demise, Joaquin forgot Annie's black blazer.

 

The rage was REAL. This all meant that we had to meet up again tomorrow at about sundown hour to film the scene, which was really a huge frustrating moment for all of us. With anger and a smidge of sadness running through our veins, we decided to just go back to Joaquin's house, with Claire De Lune playing on their car speaker, to pick up their blazer and then went back to the church to film the beginning of the finale, which takes place outside of the church at night. One thing though that really set us back was a really silly mental blockade that we all unanimously created which, looking back, is hilarious because it wasted so much time and energy. When we got back at the church, we noticed that everybody was leaving the last mass of the day and because of that we were all like "oh no what if the church closes their gates and we can't get out?" and so because of that blockade, we came to the conclusion that we had to park all the way in regional and walk THE ENTIRE MILE to the church. 

I was so insanely tired and exhausted to the point where I just took it, but obviously that entire time something in me was like "GHHRHGHRHGH THIS SUCKS I DON'T WANNA DO THISSSS I WANNA GO HOME I WANNA BE WITH MY PARENTS I MISS MY PARTNER I WANNA GO HOMMEEEE" but you Cambridge people know that for this class I do ANYTHING to end up with something awesome. I jumped into an ice cold pool and sweated buckets for last years projects, and now I'm destroying my back, my face, and my feet for this year's portfolio. I do NOTT back down without a fight. If we HAD to walk all the way to the church, then heck, whatever dude let's do it. 

Once we actually parked in Regional Park though we began to doubt and tried to find another location that is closer to the church that we could walk from, and to our luck, Andrew found a place called Weston Public Works that was right next to the church and we thought that it was worth checking out.

Very funny thing though, once we passed by the church we noticed that the gates didn't close yet and in reality, everything was just fine and will probably be open for a longer while, especially considering the church officials in there that had to clean everything up and stay there for give or take a couple more hours. HOW DID WE NOT THINK OF THAT??? I don't know, I'll just give us the benefit of the doubt and say that we were just way too exhausted to even think about logistics. 

Being so for real, all of this wouldn't have happened if some of us didn't procrastinate, I love you my friends, but we really should have stayed locked since the beginning, and I should have pushed things more than I have. I pushed and pushed and PUSHED but most of the time it just didn't get through. But enough of that spheal, I'm saving it for the reflection later this week :] We then parked outisde the church and got out of the car immediately  to go outside the gates and begin filming the beginning portion of the finale.

Luckily we did it pretty quick, and even though the shots were simple, the fact that it was a convo scene made up for it. By the time we finished, it was almost 10PM. We then went back to Joaquin's house to finish up the finale and stayed there UNTIL 12AM. WE STAYED UP. A whole 2 hours later, we completely wrapped up the filming of the finale and could not be anymore relieved by the end of it all. Of course we still had one more scene to film the very next day, but we had EVRYTHING ELSE done and ready to go so THANK GOODNESS for all our hardwork the past 2 weeks. I am seriously still very exhausted from it all. 

As for the next and final filming day, Monday, we wrapped up the one scene we were still missing and felt the biggest weight come off our shoulders after we were done! Filming is now officially wrapped up. Forever. And now all we have to do is finish putting it together, add some pretty colors and graphics, and get it going here for you all on April 10th :] We were pretty tight with everything but I have a good feeling about this!

As for now though super awesome blog readers, I must depart! I got a lott of work to do in order to get this done successfully and I’m going to do just that! 

Chau chau bai bai! :D los amo mucho!