Portfolio Project 20 Settling On Sets

 #20 Settling On Sets

    We had ONE day to film in my old house, uno, no mistakes, no reshoots, we just had to get it done. We drove to the house and immediately faced our first challenge, they changed the lock. Now we weren't breaking and entering here, I wouldn't admit to that on a blog like a FOOL, my dad had the locks switched early, and this gave us a major issue in our filming process, so we entered the house through the garage, and remember we had to film in the front door, a lot of shots would need us to keep the front door open and to go inside and out for production reasons. Filming the shot-reverse-shot was HELL especially when one of use had to walk inside. The camera woman, Nina, had to stand still and who ever wasn't in shot had to run around the house through the garage, hold the dog to make sure he doesn't run away and run around, ruining our timing, and unlock the door which would AUTO LOCK because it was electronic, then they had to keep relocking it and unlocking to refresh the auto lock's timer, it was a major pain but we got it done. The house also had no water so we went the entire shoot dying of thirst, that includes the poor dog who got a major break after shoot, plus we had to be careful with everything since if anything breaks I would be screwed. Here is a photo of the house from Zillow:

    Filming at my house was a bit easier, my dad was off in Miami and my dog slept outside so we didn't have a lot of problems. It sucked having to take down all of my posters off the wall but it's FINE they can come back. Not a lot of interesting stuff happened relating to the setting but at least we didn't face a lot of issues that couldn't be fixed from not being legally allowed to go into the house.