Production Starts...or Not?

 Over this last weekend, my group and I planned to start some of our production. However, there were a couple of roadblocks that made it hard to do so. 

First, my groupmate, Macy, was out of town for the entire weekend. We had planned to film at Macy's house and in her yard. So, this was a problem because with Macy gone, we had nowhere to film. Also, Macy deals with most of the editing during production. It would be difficult to film without her because she would not be able to tell us what time stamps (in a take) she plans on editing. This would make acting while respecting what she wants to edit, virtually impossible. Plus, in the scenes, we need a group of girls to be shown. Sam (my other groupmate) and I did not want Macy to not be in the group at some parts of the film, and then magically appear once she got back from her trip and we resumed filming. So, instead, we just postponed the start of production as a whole.

Another problem that stopped the beginning of production, was the incompletion of a storyboard. I was still completing the storyboard for my group on Saturday and most of Sunday. Beginning production without a complete storyboard is very tricky. Without the storyboard, the plot of my group's final task was slightly all over the place and hard to organize. I did not want to go into filming with any unfinished ideas or plot elements. 

Moving forward, I think my group should plan to film during weekends we are all free. Also, we can arrange sometimes filming after school at Macy's house. This would not be hard to arrange, since we all go to the same school! Plus, spring break is coming up soon, so we can film during the break as well.