Production process

 2 days after we realized the mess we made with the film opening, we met up again to re-record our whole project. We got together today in the afternoon after school and set everything up, this time we where more prepared. We first went over all the shots we had to record and everything we wanted to get done, we also gathered up all our props. Here you can see mostly everything we used:

We hung up the board with all of Maddies pictures, the one of her and her dad, we changed the light bulb of the night light to one that it cold lighting, and set up the diary. Santina brought her moms camera to record, we thought this was going to add a more professional look to the film and make it look more serious. She also borrowed her sisters tripod so that we could record and the camera was steady. This helped us a lot to get good shots. It was hard figuring out how to make the camera stay on the tripod, but we figured it out. We began to film everything chronologically, and took a few shots of everything to see which we liked best at the end. Here you can see behind the scenes of us filming the shot where Maddie walks into her room:

One of the biggest struggles while filming today was trying to get everything we needed to done before the sun went down. This is also why we filmed everything in chronological order and didn't jump around from scene to scene. Once we filmed the shot where Maddie closes her blinds we where going to be okay, because we didn't need good, natural light if her curtains where going to be closed, but before that we did. We also needed the good lighting because if not there was going to be no difference between the before and after shots of the blinds closed, when everything needed to be a bit darker to emphasize how Maddie felt. 

Thankfully we got to record everything we needed with the light before the sun went down. But now without the sun we also had a problem. In the shots, the only light in Maddies room was going to be coming from her nightlight, but it wasn't enough, so we had to improvise. We ended up having to use a vanity mirror as a light to make the shots look good, we where going around plugging it in everywhere to make everything look good. We put it on a rolling chair and would just move it around the room, here you can see how it was set up:

Finally we finished recording, now we just have to edit everything together. It feels like such a relief to have everything done. Some shots aren't the best, we know, but we put all our effort into this so we hope we have the best final result we can have. Here is another behind the scene of the last shot we took with my mom :))