Last filming blog

    Today is December 2nd, the Monday after thanksgiving break. During break my group and I filmed only one day. Due to different complications including spending time with family, vacation, and sports it was hard to get together to film. However we managed to all come together on Saturday. We planned to film from around 9 am to 12 am but the night before our group mate Reese had asked if we can go to her house early at 8 am because she had to leave at 10 am. She had prior plans that she didn’t know about until that day. This only allotted us enough time to film one scene. The day that we were supposed to plan both of my group mates were absent so we didn’t plan properly. This caused us to not be ready on Saturday. Instead of getting right to filming we had to figure out what we were going to do. Also, we didn’t realize the camera was dead so when we went to go film, we tried turning it on and realized it was dead. As a result, we went back in Reese’s room and planned more while it was charging. To plan we looked at the lyrics and figured out what we could do. We only planned one good section but we weren’t able to enforce it because the camera was charging. Reese then suggested that we go out and film on her phone and just wing the video until we have more of a plan. We wanted to get at least something done so it wasn’t a waste of time.
    By Reese’s house there was an open area, so we took her dads truck and went to the open lot. Since Reese didn’t have her license, James drove us to the open area. Before we got to the “park” we went to Reese’s cousin’s house to get a basketball to use for the video. Her cousin also happened to live right by her so we didn’t have to drive anywhere. So, we walked to their house really quick, grabbed the basketball and then went and drove to the lot.  Once we got there, we backed into the area so that we could film on the tailgate of the car. First Reese filmed James singing the lyrics and doing random dance moves with it. Next, I filmed Reese singing and dancing to the lyrics. Reese dances as a hobby so she could improvise very well. Due to that reason we filmed her three times in different areas of the truck so we could get a good clip. Reese also filmed me once but I can’t improvise very well and I didn’t know all the lyrics so I didn’t do very well. By the time we finished it was around 10 o’clock so we started to head back to the house. Once we got back to the house we looked over some of the videos. We all agreed that it didn’t turn out that good so we decided to plan another day to film.
    We are filming tomorrow again at Reese’s house. We are going straight from school. I will drive Reese and James will meet us at her house. So we don’t waste time again, Reese and I planned more of what we are going to film. We are going to film different parts of the song not in order. Whatever we can think of for that part of the song we will film and then in the editing process we will put it all together. We have a set plan for the beginning and end but we will have to plan the middle as we go. Along with filming tomorrow we will also have to say after school for a little bit on Wednesday. We have to film the beginning on Wednesday because we need to get the clips on Tuesday to put those in the video on Wednesday. Hopefully we will be able to finish filming tomorrow because we will have more time and we have more of a plan. If we don’t finish however, we have till next Monday because we only have our media class twice this week. As a result, we aren’t as rushed as were if it was due Friday. We still want to finish filming so that we aren’t stressing when it comes to editing.