Personal Project Review

I had this crazy idea of launching a mini web series that i never thought would be a reality. But once i downloaded final cut pro onto my laptop the idea seemed very much real. I came to my partner in crime, Logan with the idea and once he was on board i knew that it was something that we had to attempt. At first our plan was to have a loose idea of what the episode was going to be and just do everything else ad-lib or off the top of our heads like we have done in the past on smaller projects. But once we actually started to film the first scene we ran into one of the problems of not having a script which were the awkward silences and having to do about seven or eight takes. Once i told Morris my idea she gave me an idea of doing more of a Saturday Night Live type deal with having everything scripted and then going off script every once in a while. It took me about a week and a half to write a script that i was satisfied with. The tricky thing was finding the time that we needed to shoot everything with us both having pretty busy lives. We only have a few hours a week to film in school so we had to really plan out our shooting schedule. We had to redo scenes because of lost audio about three times. And we also had the problem of shooting after school with still having enough lighting to have the shot look good. We took a two week break in between shooting because we had no times that worked for either of us and the third person we needed for it to work. But even though the episode did not turn out how i originally had planned it i think that it was a very good learning experience with time management. And doing more than just writing and acting but also directing and trying to get what is in my head onto film which for me, was the most challenging part. Episode 1 was just the beginning and we are going to try to have eight episodes in the first season.