Setting Change

 The second biggest challenge that our group had to go through was the change of setting. At first, we were planning on using the basketball court and the room of Camila as our primary locations. The decision to select these settings in the storyline and the provision of an environment of a real high school. The room of Camila was also of great significance, since it enabled us to depict more personal and emotional scenes that contributed to the formation of her personality. This changed when Camila was not part of the project anymore, and there was no more possibility of using her room. That made us reconsider the manner in which we were going to shoot those character driven mise-en-scene. To add to it all, the basketball court incident was also a source of greater stress. We had settled on the indoor basketball court as the setting even if we couldn’t use the basketball team, and we discovered that it was being repainted and redone on the day we were to shoot. This totally disturbed our initial schedule. The access to the space and the time to shoot the film before construction started could not be shifted since the sports facilities are usually congested and have tight schedules. Due to these unforeseen developments, we were forced to have rapid adjustment. As we could not have filmed in the room of Camila, we settled on using my room and other sections of my home. This in fact played to our advantage as it provided us with greater control of lighting, sound and timing. We did not have to fear about interruptions and permission asking to use the space. In the basketball shots, we changed to the outside field basketball court of the school. It was not what we initially meant but we were able to maintain the athletic feel we had in mind. We simply needed to be conscious of weather, background noise and lighting as we were now shooting out on location.