In the narrative project Brett had a prior commitment making him unavailable for the shoot. So Brett wrote the script and storyboarded a part of the script to give us an idea about what he had envisioned. Once David and I obtained the script from Brett we went and casted our actors. We wanted to get four actors but one of the actors bailed at the last second so David and I rewrote the script for three inside of four.
This project was challenging because this was the first time I was doing a project where the story wasn’t my own creation. It was difficult to take a story that wasn’t my own and bring it to life. I wanted to put my spin on but still retain Brett’s vision.
A major issue we came across during the production was our battery died during our filming. David had charged the battery the night before and it was at full power. Over the course of the filming though the power dropped rapidly because the battery was old and couldn’t hold a charge like it used too. So we had to stop production but lucky I had checked out a backup camera just in case of a situation like this. This was a problem because it wasted our time forcing us to cut shots from our storyboard to make up for lost time since the actors had to leave at a certain time.
Working with the actors was interesting. Most of the time, they were great but sometimes it was hard to get them express an emotion they contradicts what they believe the character should act. So it would require us to build more of a back story for the characters to give them better motives for their emotion.
