Behind The Scenes

This is the first scene and arguable one of the most important scenes where the Main Character Xander was sitting in a car panicking while police sirens can be heard and you can see the blue and red flashing lights from the cop car. For this scene one of our main issues was the part of how are we gonna get blue and red lights at first we thought we could use LED lights but it didn't look good then we though of editing in which we didn't know how to do so Ben my partner came up with the Idea to pull up the lights from a YouTube video on his phone and just put it from a good angle where the camera can capture it like its taking up the whole screen and it ended up working and coming out well so that was a good save he had there if not we would have been with no more ideas.

This was the second scene where he sent a text to his mom worrying about her and then receives a call from his mom but it was actually a person who had taken his parents. The only trouble we had with this one was thinking about how we were gonna show him texting his mom at first we wanted to do a over the shoulder but then we realized you couldn't really see the text messages from there so it didn't work, so then we thought a close up might work be it did not look good and then we thought why not show a mid-shot from in front of him showing him texting and adding the sound in and then we could just put the text up on the screen by editing it in which was a great solution for the problem we were able to come up with.

For the rest of the scene after those first 2 we flew by them already knowing what to do for them because they were not to complicated but then once we got to this scene we had a little bit of trouble just deciding what we were gonna actually put inside the mail box but since we didn't have one of those big yellow envelopes we just decided to use one that was actually already in his mail box conveniently. The last little issue we had was just what Xander the MC was going to do for after the caller ended the call on him. We didn't know what expression to show or how to show it so we just ended up deciding on a sad and lost look just looking down at the ground.