The real "shooting day 1"

Soooo, dailies didn't work out. I'm not really sure why, but our group just didn't meet on the weekend to shoot. But we're catching up now. Today, most of the group met at Conrad's to shoot the first second scene, which only shows Eli and Conrad as Rusty and Topher, respectively, walking down a hallway talking. I had camera duty, Evan had sound duty, and Kyle was the director. I found out that this scene is actually incredibly hard to shoot, as the best hallway we could find had stairs that turned halfway up. There was barely enough room for the camera to get both Eli and Conrad in the shot when we all got to that landing between the stairs. Even before that, the only way to shoot this in this location was for me to hand-hold the camera while walking backwards up the stairs, then turn backwards, then go up more stairs backwards, while trying to have the camera perfectly still. That was impossible. But, I did what I could. Also, to get the lighting right, I adjusted the camera's brightness, since we couldn't dim the lights in the hallway we were using.

Once we shot that many, many times, starting from many different locations and ending at many different locations, we decided to drive over to the court house (it was around 10:30pm at this point) and shoot the first scene. This just has a lit up building in the background, Eli as Rusty leaning against/sitting on the hood of a car, eating nachos. Conrad as Topher calls his name from the background, and then Eli walks off screen. This shot ended up coming out really good. The hardest part was dealing with the wind, as it was about to start raining. We kind of made a human shield for the mic, and I think the sound will be fine. There will be music over this scene anyway.