Starting to Stress

 We are struggling to find time to film. Macy is travelling and since we planned to use her house we don't know what to do. With the deadline coming up we need to make sure we film as soon as possible. In the meantime though my other group mate Noura and I filmed what we could alone. I went over to her house on Wednesday and filmed the scene with the popcorn. We were in her kitchen and realized it was the perfect time. We got our phones out and decided who would act and who would film. I ended up being the one in front of the camera. We found microwave popcorn in her pantry and put it into the microwave. Noura recorded me taking out the fresh popped popcorn and putting it in a bowl. I said my line and followed the directions of the scene we had made in our storyboard and script. Noura turned off the camera and saved the video. We reviewed it and filmed it twice more to get it just right. Without Macy, we couldn't film any more scenes so we were done for the day. 

We tried to communicate with Macy and decide on when to film but she was travelling in Europe and there was a time difference. This made communicating difficult and we still don't have set dates to film the rest. Another issue we are facing right now is daylight savings. Most of our film is done in the dark at night, which means we have to stay extra late at Macy's house to film since the sun goes down after 7. We will work around this issue by hopefully filming on the weekends. Time is running out so we are starting to stress, but I know we will figure it out. 



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