And The Rest

For scene two, I filmed the spilling of nail polish and the opening credit “Produced

by Sara Briones.” This proved to be the most difficult scene for me to film because

of its complexity and the acting skills that were required.

The scene was supposed to be a high angle shot of me as Paola who plays Margo,

painting my nails on a normal napkin. Suddenly, my alarm clock goes off, and I stop

painting my nails to grab the clock and see that it is almost time for first period to start.

Then, I grab all my essentials for school that are nearby (phone, wallet, scrunchies).

While I am rushing to grab everything, I accidentally knock over the white nail polish

and the napkin now has the words “Produced by Sara Briones” written on it. I wanted

to make it seem as if the words magically appeared.

One major issue was trying to act with only my hands. We didn’t want to show Margo’s

face until later, so it was important to act with only my hands. I had to somehow show

the audience that I was shocked at the time and was late for school. Some methods

I tried were shaking the clock or zooming into the clock.

Also, for the napkin part, I had an issue with changing the normal napkin with the one

that had the opening credit. While Margo was rushing to grab her things, I had to

simultaneously switch the napkins. This was difficult because there wasn’t enough

time to do both. Therefore, to solve this issue, I decided to zoom into the clock, cut

the recording, switch the napkins, start recording again from where we left off with

the clock, and then pan towards the napkin. I left camera fixed on the opening credit

for a couple seconds so that the audience could have enough time to read the

opening credit.

Scene three was the easiest to film. My brother helped me film this scene by

laying on the floor and film me grabbing my bag full of clothes to reveal the lit up

sign that says, “Edited by Isabella Rivera.” It only required two takes.

I was scared to film scene four because it required a mirror. I have heard that it is

difficult to film with a mirror due to the camera’s reflection. However, I surprisingly

had no issue with my mirror since it was angled in a way that it only showed the

reflection of a wall. I wrote the opening credit with the lipstick at an angle. This is

how it looked.

I only had to remove one picture that was blocking the clarity of the words

“Directed by Daniela Kim.” To clean my mirror, I used Windex to remove the lipstick.

So, overall scene four was no burden.

I will let you know how these scenes turn out when editing. Bye for now!