We had to improvise:

I was expecting this, i knew the project wasn't going to turn out the exact way we planned it, i guess it's part of any project and fairly common in low budget or in this case home-made movies. We had to do a completely different setting we were expecting, and our plan “B” also failed; instead of the spooky cabin we were going to use, we had to conform with a stable/barn. This happened on day 2 of our filming experience. Also the weather didn’t play in our favor, we were looking for a gray day to assist in our mood of the scene, instead we got a sunny beautiful day, very rare since here it rains almost daily (i never guessed that i would be complaining with a cloudless, sky blue day, but i guess this is Aice Media for me..). We had to improvise..

After a brief debriefing with my group we looked at our options, we could:

-Change the storyboard
-Go home, call it a day and plan again
-Improvise

Obviously us being creative teens we chose to improvise. I looked at this article for moral support and to convince my teammates to improvise, here we see how famous, big budget movies best scenes were totally improvised. Well certainly we weren’t going to start filming from scratch with no ideas, we took maybe 45 minutes to plan our shots well, it was easier and very helpful to have the setting right there, because we could accommodate many shots we already had planned already and it assisted us to make better shots combined with the setting.

From this experience we learned that to develop a storyboard we first have to have the setting established and create the storyboard based on said setting. By using this we already had most of the shots and we filmed the rest of them using the setting as inspiration, for example we looked at a tree and i immediately associated it with scratching and causing harm, which we could use for our schizophrenic character, to our surprise when we carved out the marks, the inside sabila was red, which was perfect because we can mimic it to blood. We took the rest of the shots and called it a day for filming, next it was time for the foley stage.