A million problems to solve

    Figuring out how to avoid EVERY SINGLE CONFLICT was so difficult for me. My number one issue was figuring out a filming date. My original filming date was the 24th of February. Clearly that ended up not working, because I had a rehearsal for a show I'm in.  So we kept pushing it back until we found a date that everyone in my group could do.

    My next issue was the set location. Knowing that I wanted an outside student center looking set, my filming would have most likely taken place in the dark. When we set our film date we realized how we needed to film afterschool when everyone was available, so it was already dark outside. To me, this was an issue, but everyone else pointed out studying at night is completely normal and all we had to do was set up lighting to make it look like they were in a public place rather than my patio.

    Finally, my biggest issue of all (for my sanity, at least) was one of my actors hair being red. I don't even mean a ginger type of red, I mean RED. No matter what that could not be seen in my film. I took hours coming up with a good solution to this while also juggling figuring out every other aspect of my film. After working it out with the actor, they finally suggested that they have a black wig that could cover up the red hair. After styling it, it finally looked realistic enough to be used in the film.

    Overall, there were so many obstacles I had to overcome in this process, but I made it work! I think next time I should clear a date with my cast way ahead of time to assure none of us had any conflicts so I wouldn't need to stress about the date or time. I think the red hair issue wasn't ACTUALLY that big of a deal, but it was stressful to think about on top of everything else, which is definitely why I stressed over it the most.