To our luck, on Wednesday night as I arrived at Jonathan's house it started raining AGAIN. We contemplated shooting in the rain but the fear of damaging my phone as it is recording and obstructing the shot as the water dripped in front of the camera made us realize it wasn't a possibility.
To once again make sure our time wasn't put to waste we constructed a makeshift bar that we could use for one of the three major scenes within our opening. To create this we used a dark blue bed sheet that we hung up in Jon's garage and then had a rolling cart that we placed a white wooden board on top of to make it seem like a bar top. To create the idea that my character, Homer, is actually drinking, we placed a shot glass next to me in the shot along with a vodka bottle to my side. In the glass itself, we used water which made vodka the easiest choice of alcohol for us to fabricate.
The way that we allowed ourselves to get the shots was by using a stepping ladder and placing it in front of our makeshift bar. The angling and framing was also a difficulty that we ran into because we weren't provided with a lot of space so we had to deal a lot with closer shots and Jon and I both had to be on our knees so it would seem that our bodies were the right size with the bar top.
Since we have spring break coming up we plan to shoot the rest of the project later during that week as I will be out of town for a few days.
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