The beginning!

Paty and I started filming today, which we realized may have been slightly premature...
We went to Markham Park at dusk in order to get the right lighting. We wanted to make sure that it was dark enough that the film has an eerie feeling, but light enough that we could still film and see our subjects properly. Since we wanted to make sure that we had enough time to film and edit our entire production and get everyone together at the same time in the same place, we figured today would be a good day to start. Because it was a sort of last minute decision to film, we didn't have all of the props we needed. Paty brought the fake blood (which we ended up not having time to use today), but we forgot to bring a knife (the murder weapon) or cling wrap (to be used to prevent staining Paty's car with the fake blood).
Paty and I had some shot ideas in mind, but because we changed our entire angle and plot fairly recently, we didn't have a storyboard nor a script. While filming, we had to guess and check which shots worked and which didn't. Some of the shots seemed decent while filming, but we later realized didn't get the message across properly. The entire filming was trial and error on our part.
Without a script, we had to improvise on what our actors would say. Once we started filming, we had to feel out the script as we went along. Lines that we thought would sound good ended up just sounding corny, and a lot of it was made up while filming by the actors themselves.
We didn't finish filming our entire opening scene tonight because we didn't have time before the sun went down and it was simply too dark to film, but we realize now that we definitely need to be more prepared next time we go to film with our props, storyboard, and script. But regardless of our absentmindedness for this filming round, we love what we have so far and are so excited to continue filming and seeing how it all comes together! Our actors fit the roles perfectly and work really well together, which makes this entire process much easier, and it's all going very well and coming together just how we pictured it.