First shoot - scary start
Yesterday was our first real shoot, another milestone.
We spent the first hour improvising back stories, so while we already had certain backstory elements that were necessary for the plot, we let the players make up the rest, but through improvisation. They got to actually act out their backstories, which should make them more memorable for them.
We went on to shoot some pre-story arc footage which we were hoping to use later (we’ll see), and finally the roughly 30 seconds of footage that we’d planned to shoot as part of the first episode.
Apart from a fairly scary situation where we had a car with the two front people in balaclavas and the two back people (including myself) with bags over our heads, and the driver deciding to drive into a service (gas) station as a joke, the day went fairly well.
Next weekend we shoot the rest of the first and second episodes, and a whole bunch of stock footage. That’s when the reality of the project should really kick in.