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Production; The 3 million and 1 motorcycles

Welcome back Gems. Don't let the title scare you, this blog is indeed about filming, or the lack thereof. Gear up for this one and let's hit the road.

So we all know to make this movie happen we had to be at a fair. We do know this right? Because if you don't then I don't know why you're reading this. Read those and then come back. Ok now that they're gone, we arrived at the fair at roughly 6:15 pm. We had to walk down to the entrance and buy tickets. The way we enter had this expo inside of it.  Like Publix, Mattress Firm and mini sea show and so much more. However Jennifer wasn't not in there. She didn't even know what we were talking about I mean who would "near the giant sand shark" isn't exactly the best directions. So when find her it is exactly 6:30 pm, which is the time the South Florida fair decided to have a motorcycle parade. Yeah motorcycle and parade in the same sentence. This parade consisted of well over 300 motorcyclist and even someone with a slingshot car. All this noise and smell set filming back drastically.

On the bright side we found Jennifer on the smoke filled side 300 motorcycle stood in between us. If I'm being honest I was praying a Red Sea moment would happen because we had a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it.  I'm mean we were at least 30 minutes behind the allot schedule. And with this being a school night this was major issue. Side note I didn't know that many people go to the fair on a weeknight. Anyways, when were able to cross, and I thought it was over there they were still cruising on by with out a care in the world. When we finally were able to buy tickets if was different than we were expecting. It automatic ticket machine not a person working a booth. So we reworked the first scene, minor problem, right? Well yes beside the people walking through while the camera is rolling blocking the stalker from the view of the camera.  Good thing more than one take exist. 

And that's how scene one was filmed. Yeah it was a bit rocky but if y'all think that's the worst of it, buckle up for next blog. As always keep shining Gems and if you ride a motorcycle: first don't and second wear a helmet.

Sincerely,

Makenna Jewels <3 




P.S just a clip of the madness. 

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