Since it was my first time filming a short film, I definitely took mental notes for next time. Such as: the tripod should be my bestie when filming, pay big attention to wardrobe changes and surrounding items in the background that either need to be removed or covered up. If I can execute that, I will save myself precious time when editing.

The actors have arrived.

Now this, people, is how your green screen should not look.
Check out the full photo set on Flickr.

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And when we were done:

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A video portrait shoot at the town center.
Music: I Gotta Have Her – Team Blackout

So we headed out to go see… Harry Potter??? Haha I guess it was the safest family movie on the list that wasn’t a cartoon. First off we got our snacks from the gas station, because we knew we were dealing with a nearly 3 hour movie here.

I see they changed the look of the movie menu. Now there are movie photos and brighter highlighted colors. Neato.

We go to the food court to get some popcorn. I’m feeling right at home lol. I couldn’t come to the theaters enough.

Overall, as a person who is not at all caught up with Harry Potter movies I think it was more of a ‘go home and watch under the blanket’ movie. I still found it to be interesting, even though I feel asleep real quick about twice. Hey I woke up to the good parts!

After the movies we went to a restaurant. The afternoon ended off with a big YUM. A plate full of baked potato with meat bbq flavored.

My pal, Naomi, filling up her gas tank before we first head to pick up her cousin, and then off to downtown.

It was my first clubbing experience. I love to dance, so to me it was a good dancing time. My only complaint is that the music was ridiculously loud. I mean WTHeck do people actually go to the club without ear plugs? Because before I even go to another I will make sure I have some ear plugs handy and if I don’t have any it ain’t happening. There’s no amount of fun worth damaging your ear drums!

Ran into a couple friends I knew from high school looking fierce for church!

And here we are, almost 3 years later, exchanging Facebook names. They are both sisters and back then we used to always rehearse dance moves for school shows we were participating in. Being in the International Festivals / Black History Programs was a major highlight of high school for me.

These photos range from three different evenings of July ’09 alone.
I get all fascinated when I see the sky with beautiful mixtures or shades of color. It’s like being in another world. A new world. Or another planet. Or being in a movie. One of those movies where something is about to happen to the place, or after it has already happened. It’s just a lot of imagination going on lol. Sky’s the limit.

My green screen stand was delivered this week.
It can adjust to almost 9 feet. I had set everything up in one of our downstairs living rooms. Once I showed my brothers they were quick to act out a good o fake fighting scene. Courtesy of playing video games all the time I’m sure . Excuse the jagged edges in the video. To complete my little setup I’ll have to buy some backlights to illuminate the green which will avoid those shadows from appearing. It’s so big, I sure as heck didn’t feel like ironing it just yet, but if this is the result of a keyed out wrinkled, semi-lit green screen, then hotdaym I can’t wait to get those backlights!