Here are some photos!

The second scene went mostly according to plan. I was kind of worried that getting a fire lit in a suburban backyard would be problematic, but it was actually the opposite. I liked the aesthetic that it added to my backyard. So we quickly did some final rehearsals, and started recording. The shoot itself went really well. Actors knew their lines, there wasn’t any interrupting wind, and the fire illuminated the shot really nicely. The one thing that didn’t exactly go according to plan was that we were hoping to completely fill the shot with smoke from a smoke machine to get a kind of misty effect. We found that the smoke just completely disappeared into the air while we were outside. So, in the end, we just kept the background black, and illuminated the characters. Overall, this scene was the easiest to shoot because, aside from some stylized close ups and cutaways, it was essentially a shot reverse shot setup. So, we shot most of it live.