Filming: Take One

Hi All! 

Very excited news in today's post, we have begun filming! Asher and I were able to finally pair up our schedules and put everything else aside to start filming our masterpiece. We utilized most of the locations planned out in our film, with a few add ons, such as Asher's dining room, his backyard and the park in his neighborhood. 

First, we shot in Asher's guest bedroom. This room looks most like it belongs to a female, and to make it more representative of a high school room, Asher and I did a little redecorating. We relocated much of his decorations into the guest room, or Nora's room, including: framed art, desk supplies, stuffed animals, framed pictures, Asher's Himalayan salt lamp (I didn't know what it was at first either), and of course an extra decor which was Nora's bottle of pills. 

We took footage of Nora being on the "Addy," which includes her being very focused in her work and very involved. We took many shots and various angles to have plenty of footage to work with. Here is an inside still shot: 

Nora in her bedroom.

We then proceeded to film in Asher's dining room to shoot some more of the scenes where Nora will be on Adderall. She will be shown taking the pills and doing her homework and studying intensely. 

After that we shot a few scenes in a spare, empty room and transformed it into the therapist's office. We were going to use Asher's dad's office in this scene, but he was using it at the time and it didn't look as good as we had imagined it to do. We made it look like a therapist session by rearranging the couch and the throw pillows and adding degree's to the wall to make it look more like an actual office. 

Asher and I then took some of the shots outside. We shot a scene in the backyard and in the park. We used the backyard in the day and at night and took some pretty cool shots using the lights hanging on the fence at night. We ventured to the park and got unique footage of Nora and her friend on the swings. 

One of our favorite and most fun to film, were the shower scenes. They came out just as we envisioned them too. The inspiration for us came from the famous shower and murder scene in Psycho. Megan was such a great actress to work with because she was willing to do anything and was such a great sport about it all. She didn't mind getting soaked in the shower and having us film parts of her that others would probably feel very uncomfortable doing. None of the shots show nudity, except they imply it which was the goal. They came out great and I am so excited to edit them and show them to all of you.

Here is a behind the scenes scoop on the Adderall, or Addy, we used in our film: we made our own! Asher bought empty vegan capsules off of Amazon Prime because we needed to use something that our actress could actually take (Megan is vegan so it was even harder to find). To make our placebo pills, we filled them up with red sugar. Adderall extended release is orange or blue, but since we didn't want it to be exactly the same because we don't have permission to use them, we chose to do red. 

Making Addy

It has been so much fun filming with Asher and Megan and I'm so excited to continue. Stay in touch!