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Day One of Filming (2/22/24) week 4

  Our first day of filming was on Thursday February 22, 2024. We filmed at Big Cat Habitat in Sarasota, Florida because Ella Mowrey, our director, owns it. We all arrived at the habitat around 4:30 to begin filming. Sydney, Peyton, Meadow, and I are the actors in our film "Caged." Ella is our lead person that does the filming. First, we started in the truck and filmed us walking up into the front entrance gate. Then we filmed a close-up of the lock breaking. After, we filmed us walking through the habitat from different angles. We then filmed the ending as Ella's Father, Clayton, had to go to a meeting, so we decided to film the scenes we didn't need him for. We got us running into the cage and locking it, but we need to redo Peyton locking it because we wanted a different shot. We started to edit the clips the next day on Friday. This is so we stay productive and on top of getting our filming done. We are going to film again on Monday February 26, 2024. The equipment we used was just the steady camera holder. We decided not to talk because we thought it would lead to a more disturbing, creepy mood. Since it is horror, we need to add as much of a scary feeling as we can. The most challenging part about filming today was how many times we would have to redo scenes. Most scenes we redid like 3-4 times until we were all happy with it. Being in a group with multiple people comes with multiple different opinions. What one person thought was good, someone else didn't. The part that was the most fun was whenever we would mess up instead of yelling, we would all laugh and have a good time. It definitely helped us make memories that we are always going to remember. Memories are always a fun part of anything you do. We filmed from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. At the end of filming all of us felt satisfied with what we got done. We felt that we got a whole bunch of shots done, but we still wish we worked a little faster. If we could do something differently, I think we would all have started filming a little earlier.                              





 
    

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