Obstacles/Issues

 Ok so basically everything we had planned is just ruined. For the past two weeks we have been trying to get some filming done but nobody is cooperating.

Our main guy, Trevor, who has known about this plan to film for weeks is on the baseball team and has a game everyday. It is a bit frustrating because I wish he informed us of his game schedule so we could have planned ahead better. This issue pushed our filming schedule behind a lot. Not only did we have this issue with our main guy, but also with our main girl and our extras. Our main girl, Camila, was unable to film on most days after school, and on the days she could, Trevor couldn't. This caused me and my partner a lot of stress, time was ticking and both of our main characters couldn't find ways to compromise on a filming day. We thought we would figure it out, but boy were we wrong. We then later found out the boys basketball team we were planning on filming with to be our extras in the warmup scene, all wanted to be difficult and not want to stay after school to film. We tried convincing them with food, but they would not budge. And to add on top of that, the girls cheerleading team we asked to be in it all had different days of availability, so no schedules were aligning. And now for the cherry on top, the gym, which was our primary filming location, was being re-painted.

With all these issues, me and my partner thought we were screwed, but we didn't give up. Fortunately, I came up with a way to fix the scene so we wouldn't have so many people in one scene. Instead of have the cheer team and the basketball team all warming up in one area at the same time, we decided to make them have separate practices. The way it would work is by opening with some of the girls chatting it up, looking like they just finished practice, and then have Camila realize she left something at the basketball practice. Then, Camila and her friend Avery will walk in to their practice, and thats where the relationship shot will take place.

As for the issue of recasting, we replaced the girl playing Camila with one of our best friends Miah. We couldn't have done this without her stepping up to the plate and committing to such a big task. She actually said she is really excited, and can't wait to act! As for the actor playing Trevor, we talked things over with him and finalized a filming day that worked for the both of us so we could finally film. Now finally for the main issue, the extras. For the basketball team, for practicality reasons we decided to make it look like a smaller practices. Our friends Will, Matias, Brayden, and Hunter all agreed to help us out a be in the scene. Luckily, they are also good friends with the actor playing Trevor, so there will be very good chemistry. As for the cheer girls, we asked a couple of our friends to help us out and they happily agreed.