The day began with me arriving at Taylor's house at 9:00am with talent arriving at 9:30am. It was a rather eventful day, ranging from Taylor and I coming across a snake, getting sunburned, or driving by someone who had just gotten into a motorcycle accident, not even mentioning that our main actor, Julian came face to face with an alligator. My first mistake was not putting on sun block because the sun was BEATING down on us on Saturday. But other than that, everything went according to plan.
Throughout the day we took out some shots from the storyboard and added others. We primarily took out the ones that weren't necessary such as some drone shots. On the other hand, we inserted some, primarily during the first initial scene. We realized that we needed high angle shots to imply that Alex is being watched, which was not planned for in the storyboard. Of course, the script helped tremendously as well because it told us the dialogue that we needed to get. For the most part though, we referred to the storyboard during the shoot for framing and stage directions. The stage directions that I wrote here and there told the actors what to do when they were on camera.
The weather was also in our favor the entire day since the sun was out the entire time, not a common occurrence since it does rain here a lot (I did end up getting a sun burn). The only issue that we had was that we were filming in the Everglades park and from time to time airboats would start up and create a lot of noise. We had to end up waiting for them to pass so we wouldn't pick up that audio in our NAT sounds.
Here are some behind the scenes pics:
