Out of Order

Although we were going to film it chronologically, and we wrote the movie step by step i wasn't thinking chronologically. in my head a pictured filming parts of the movie separately in each location and then putting them together and cutting out the unnecessary parts.  i had to constantly check myself for doing that. i had to picture how the film would play out in my head periodically to make sure that we wouldn't be caught in a situation where we had to have a huge fight scene in front of the senior lounge, and then have a long awkward walk to the lunch room for the next scene. in "professional" movies you rarely see leading man actually driving to his love interests house (unless it serves to either develop character or a relationship) but instead the movie  cuts to the part where he shows up on her doorstep to beg for forgiveness. then came the problem that if we did stop recording, change locations, and then continue recording, the movie would jump around too much. i was beginning to see that happening more as we continued to develop the plot. by trying to avoid awkward and unnecessary scenes, we only developed the main scenes and at the end they didn't connect at all. while organizing the movie, we often got caught up in the big conflicts, or the scenes that had the most meaning. this left huge plot holes that we had to fill up at the last minute. i think that if we thought chronologically instead of thinking about the individual scenes the entire movie would flow naturally and we wouldn't have the problem of forcing the pieces to connect and fill up the gaps in the plot.