CAP Hollywood Update

I am so freaking excited about our movie.

To be honest, I've been excited about it since I wrote my short story. Ever since I started it, I've been able to picture it in my head. When I discussed my story with Ms. Fillman, we talked about how easy it'd be to film, and how good it would look. (We agreed that it would make for great indie, artsy cinematography, which I love). When it was picked to be made into a movie, and our group started discussing filming, it seemed only natural: my story already was a movie, at least inside my head.

Last Saturday, we had our first day of filming. It was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen: the characters in my head, once only imagined, now real and beautiful and emotional, saying the things I wrote for them. My friend Olivia, who was in my Conservatory at Imagination Stage, plays the main character, and Josh, the father of a friend, plays her scene partner. They are both so talented and professional, and it was amazing to work with them. Going back and watching the footage, I can't imagine the scenes any differently. Olivia in particular is fantastic--at one point in the scene, she was actually crying, and we have one beautiful shot of a tear falling down her face. I fully expect her to be at least nominated for Best Actor.

We also got a lot of filming done on Saturday--namely, all of our dialogue and the majority of our script. Tomorrow, we have our second day of filming, and while that'll be a bit of a pain--it requires us to move around a lot, to a bunch of different locations--I'm excited for it, not in the least because it'll be the most fun part to film. It's going to be a montage of cute scenes between Olivia and Everleigh (another actor), and Connor's filming it in a super artsy indie hipster beautiful way.

I'm a little worried about editing, just because we have SO MUCH footage. Luckily, Connor's offered to edit at home in addition to editing at school, so that we can get everything done in time. (Which we will).

We also have great music--we found some good stuff on Creative Commons, but we also emailed an artist that we like and asked if we can use their music. They said yes, so we'll be using 'Big Jet Plane' by Angus and Julia Stone in our film.

Basically, it's gonna be great.