Production Blog: Recording the last scenes part one

On April 6, 2021, my partner and I met up to record the last scenes for our opening sequence. After school, we decided to meet up for the last time with the actress playing Irene. My partner, Margarita, had her parents drive her to the actresses house and I walked to the actresses house. Once we got to her house we put our masks on because of COVID-19 and we began right away. We sat down with the actress and explained to her the last scenes we needed to record. I showed the actress the storyboard and explained the scenes. Margarita and I both decided to take turns recording these last scenes. We needed to record scenes nine, ten, eleven, and re-record scene seven, and a voiceover. We recorded scenes seven, ten, and eleven only with the actress since scene nine does not require her presence. 

While the actresses practice her acting, we set up our setting and planned how we would proceed recording. We began with the voiceover since it was the easiest out of all tasks. The actress simply needed to say 'hello' which we need for scene fifteen where Johnny calls Irene and she answers the phone. The plan is for her to say 'hello' and then we will edit the audio to make it sound as if Johnny cuts Irene off mid word. I showed the actress how we wanted her to say hello and recorded the audio. It took only two tries since the actress did a really good job in recording. Next, we rerecorded scene seven in the actresses backyard. This time, Margarita, held the phone to record in a low-angle and I used my hand to represent Johnny's hand. This is the scene where Irene and Johnny are playing 'rock, paper, scissors' which is a part of his vision. We recorded this a few times until we got the result we needed. Next blog, I will talk about how we recorded scenes nine, ten, and eleven!