Working With Lauren

As I said, Thursday was an early release day and the last day before spring break. It was also the best day for Sofia, Lauren, and I to film. I got to Lauren house around 1 PM which was way later than I would've liked. The good thing was Lauren was finished getting ready when I arrived. I was going to walk to her house which is a good 7 minute walk, but her mother picked me up instead. We went to Lauren's room and I immediately took everything out from my bag and help her pick out two outfits. The plan was to film all of Lauren's parts (which is only two) and then Sofia would come and it would be her and I. I picked out black leather pants to match the black leather blazer brought. I wanted a pop of color for the shirt and we tucked a green dress into her pants and it looked perfect. I told her to only button the middle button and put on the white lace up wedges I also brought. I was upset and mad at myself because I forgot to bring the microphone for her. However, we had to ditch that idea and work with it. We went outside and filmed to opposite way of her house. It was very hot outside so we were struggling because Lauren was very hot. Thankfully I brought my tripod so all I had to do was press the record button and I would shorten it later to the final shot. We improved a little and went outside of the script.  I liked the new ones a lot better than the original lines. We thought we got the one, but listening to it back, there was construction noise from the house right next door and the wind in the microphone was really bad. It took us about 25 minutes to get the one. I noticed that the wind in the microphone was still a problem, but since it took so long to get that one shot, I just left it. She then changed into my next outfit I picked out which was a short, green, silk dress and the same shoes. This also took about 25 minutes. It was even hotter now and I had many problems with birds, wind, and airplanes. I took a fan and cover the microphone to attempt to break up any wind. I pressed record on my phone with the tripod and leveled it in front of Lauren's house which is technically "Sophie's house". We also improvised with this scene and went out of script. Sofia arrived in the middle of the scene and kept making Lauren laugh. I told Sofia to go sit and stay on her phone so she wouldn't distract Lauren. The wind kept wobbling the tripod so I had to hold it after it knocked it on the floor. It was kind of hard getting the perfect angle and leveling it to a "news broadcast angle". However, after all that, we got the two shot's and Lauren was finished. 


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