I am extremely happy to announce that we have wrapped production for our film opening! On Saturday March 16th we shot the first half of our opening: The boxing scene. This was by far the most stressful part of the entirety of the film opening. We had a rollercoaster of a night having been kicked out of one location, to being rained out, to filming in a neighborhood and wrapping production. I learned an abundance of new things from this shoot and it is definitely one I'll never forget.
Our night started at 7:30 PM at Markham Park in Weston, FL. We arrived and started getting our actors into costume and applying their makeup. Instead of 4 cars we decided to use 6 to make the space seem more crowded since we didn't have too many extras. After getting about 4 shots, a security vehicle came and asked us to leave, saying the park was closed.
We discussed it as a group and decided that we would shoot at a side road by US-27. On our way out of the park we were struck by our biggest problem: rain. Our group hopped on a call and decided that it was best to cancel and reshoot another day. After this decision was made I texted in the group chat with crew and extras that the shoot was cancelled. I went home very disappointed in myself, I was very nervous that we would not get this shoot done.
30 minutes pass and I'm sitting in my room, Rafa knocks on my door and tells me "Armando's house is big enough to fit all of the cars, call the extras and we'll shoot there." It was a miracle. It took a lot of waiting, but we were finally able to shoot at our friend Armando Padilla's house in Weston, FL. One of our biggest changes in the film so far was our cast. We had originally casted Rafael and Neil Shulkin, but due to schedule problems Neil could not shoot after we left Markham Park. We replaced Neil with Manuel Leizaola, a junior at Cypress Bay. Once we had our cars set up and our equipment ready, we began shooting.
Once we got the shoot started we were able to get through it pretty quickly and smoothly. The majority of our problems were errors that the actors were making or me wanting to take a shot again because I didn't like how it looked. We had very little technical errors besides our work light turning off every so often. We solved this problem with the very complex "Unplug it and plug it back in" technique.
Having reviewed some of the shots, I am very satisfied with how this shoot turned out. There were some errors that could have been prevented or fixed, but nothing detrimental. I was very satisfied with the lighting in our shots, although the cars on Manuels' side did not illuminate the ring as much as the cars on Rafa's side, our work light was more than enough for what we needed.
Im beyond happy and proud to say that we finished filming our opening. This has been my biggest challenge for the last few weeks and I think I handled everything well.
Now we can finally move on to editing!!! 'Til the next one.
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