Filming Struggles

Some of the scenes that we were shooting require a gym and an indoor basketball court. It sounds easy enough to find, but with 4 people with 4 different gyms that don't have guest passes available to minors, we had to get creative.

At first we decided to shoot the gym sequence first, so we went to YouFit gyms as the workers that are there are usually laid-back and wouldn't mind us filming. When we got there however there was this lady that refused to let us in to film.

After that plan was foiled we regrouped and decided that the YMCA would be a great next place to try as not only did it have a gym, but also an indoor basketball court. Two of our members were able to get into the gym and was about to shoot the gym scene with the various shots when we realized we had forgotten the headphones at home. This key part of the scene made it impossible to shoot and as we were waiting for our other members to get through the workers figured out what we were doing and kicked us out.

After that our morale was down, it was getting late in the afternoon and everyone was demotivated and wanted to go home. This was until one of our group members remembered that they had seen a promo from L.A Fitness where you could get a 3-day free trial. Everyone signed up as we headed over to the gym. After multiple gyms we finally struck gold and was able to film both the gym and the basketball scenes at L.A Fitness is a short amount of time.

Even though the finished product may look like the process went smoothly, there are and will always be bumps in the road that we have to overcome to complete this film and make it look flawless.