Filming Day 1, (Inside the museum)

Elena walking around the museum

 Filming day has arrived! For the first 30 minutes of filming our cinematographer, Brendan was recording Elena walking around the museum. But we had to film backwards because this scene is actually the very last scene in the script, but as I've mentioned we decided to film at the locations that aren't close by first. So, as Elena walked around, he filmed from different angles to vary the shots. Some were close ups, some were OTS, and etc. 

Younger Elena and Valentina walking around

Since we are going to have flashbacks in this film, Brendan pretty much did the same thing with Valentina (the mom) and Elena (younger her). He got clips of them walking around and have their moments togethers. 

Flashback and present moment transition.

For this shot, we changed things up a bit. Since there is this long walkway, we had younger Elena walk down, then turn left into this corner, and as she disappeared behind the wall, older Elena came out the other end. We thought it would've been a cool transition to indicate that the flashback scenes are over, and older Elena is now back here again. 

Low angle shot. 

 This was another shot we thought would look cool. Since this piece of art has that reflection with the blue and white lighting, we decided to have Elena stand in front of it and look down while Brendan shots from a low angle. The lighting kind of emphasizes on that feeling and mood of sadness and somber. Obviously, she is still grieving her mother deaf but is trying to move one with her life.