Of All the Scenes to Record

Of all the scenes to record, this was the shoot I was most nervous about. The scene is simple, our two field agents are driving to the location and it's supposed to show how unprofessional they are despite looking serious. They're arguing about directions and are talking about stiff irrelevent to their job. But to film this I needed someone to drive my car while I filmed from the backseat. This was because my car was the only one that looked like it could be an undercover cop car.

So I handed my keys to my group member, someone who I've only met like three times out of school. I hesitated a lot because I really didn't want anything bad happening to my car but I realized, we were in a pretty open area that wasn't crowded so I decided it was okay. We did loops around a neighborhood around eight times to get different angles and shots and every time he hit the gas I got nervous. My car survived thankfully, but its weird being in the backseat of your own car while its being driven.

Although, while filming we almost made a big mistake. Our group and I had this idea to use a song in the background playing from the car which the characters would sing as it fit perfectly with their vibe and unprofessionalism. Although, thankfully the first few shots we did, we endedup re doing them anyway, but by like the 4th re try, one of my group members made a good point saying "wait this is copyrighted, we cant use this." I was really bummed out becasuse the song added a layer to their character in such a good and subtle way, but it wasn't the end of the world and im glad we caught that before we finalized the shot.

We ended up just having to shoot the scene in like silence as we couldn't find a copy right free song that actually worked sadly. We ended up finishing the shot and we were happy with how it came out so we decided to call it there for day 1 of filming, as we had limited time but still managed to get a lot of recording done.