Filming

Sadly we could not film. All of us were busy this weekend. We all had prior arrangements that we had forgotten about. We had all gotten excited about filming. Then we planned out times. But sadly we realised that we were all busy. We all wanted to go to kats house. I was so excited. But i also couldn't find a ride. So we decided to film and have a sleepover another time.

When we film we decided it would be better at a later time. We thought a later time would be better. We decided that because we need money. The things that we want require money. We all realised that us wanting to film on Saturday was very short notice. And we wouldnt be able to get money from our parents. We are going to aim for the weekend after thanksgiving. Because then it wpuld probably be a better time for that.

We want to film at multiple different locations. We also want to buy food. And maybe buy oursleves some things too. I might ask kat if there is a mall close to her house that we can hang out at. Because going to the mall will get us some amazing footage. Also if its at the mall we can invite more people. Because then kats parents wont get mad that theres a lot of kids at their house. But im so excited to film when we do. Also hopefully tge weather is warmer.

Storyboard

1. Our costumes are just going to be t shirts and shorts. But the weather could be colder so maybe jeans and shirts. And if it rains then well just wear leggings and have umbrellas.
2. The lighting is gonna be dark. We are going for a very chill vibe. The more mellow and dark the better. Also we are using strobe lights maybe.
3. We arent going to be acting per se perhaps just playing up our personalitys to ghe cameras but just being ojrselves whilst hanging out.
4. There is a scene where we will be messing around with makeup. Just messing around. So it wont look good but just for fun.
5. Our proos are not really props. But moreso food and our skateboards.
6. Our secenery will be very aesthetic and we will eb filming at mostly stores and kats house.

Shenica will be mainly doing editing along with some help from us. We are mainly focusing on easy transition because we want it to be like you blink and the BOOM next scene.

We finally decided to keep our song as 'girls just wanna have fun' by Cyndi Lauper. We might have to cut the sound on the real scene because we might want scenes of us laughing but it would overlap the song.

Were most likely going to be using the same like six shots and movements. We are gling be using tracking a lot for our skateboard shots and also pov a lot.

mv planning

For our location we decided to have more than one. We decided to film at around three or four locations. Our locations are most likely going to be Kats house, the skate park, and we might film at the ice cream shops and maybe some other extra places. We are going to most likely to have a sleepover.We are going to ask for permission to film at all the places. We will have a first aid kit on hand and our waterbottles.

Our costumes are going to be normal going out clothes. Were going for a simple girls night theme, so we will keep our outfits very simple such as jeans, simple shirts, jackets, hoodies. For our props we will be using skateboards, bicycles, skates, cameras, face masks, pillows, and pajamas.. We will be using these for our footage. We will be going to the beach, park, Kats house and we will be using these props at these locations. Since our costumes is just normal teenager clothes we will be fine with simple clothes. For our makeup we will also keep it simple, some if they want they can choose to wear makeup or if they do not want they do not have to. At the end its a "girls just want to have fun" music video. All we will be doing is having fun. 

For our schedule, everyone is coming to kats house on a Saturday. We will film some scenes in kats house. Then we will go to the "skate park", it is actually just the back of a mechanic shop. After we will go to McDonalds. We will be also go to an icecream place and overall spend the most time at kats house.


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intro to new project

So as I said in my last blog. We are finally done with our commercial. And we are starting our music video. I am really excited. My group is sort of the same as last time. But with a few changes because we added a few of our friends.

For our song we chose Girls just wanna have fun by Cyndi Lauper. It was made in 1983. We chose this song because we wanted a really fun and chill theme. And what better song than a song about girls having fun. For our back ups they are Material Girl by Madonna or Marvins Room by Drake. For our backups we will still keep the same theme.

Our songs are both 80s pop besides Marvins room which is r&b. For camera st
1.For our costumes we are just wearing normal clothes because there is no point I  dressing up as it is supposed to look natural. We are going to be wearing band shirts and vans though.
2. Our lighting is going to be either colorful with multicolor lights. Or perhaps dark depending on the song we choose.
3.We thought that instead of having "actors" we should just hang out with our friends. We are going just film ourselves having fun with our friends.
4.For our makeup we are going with a natural theme. So our everyday makeup or just bare faces.
5.For props we are going to be using skateboards and food. We also might go bowling or rollerskating and use those as "props".
6. For our scenery we are going to have multiple different locations. We are going to one of our group members houses and then we are going to skateboard down the street. Maybe we might get some ice cream and film ourselves doing that too.

that's me signing off!

final blog

welcome back! its been a while. Allow me to catch you up. We finished editing and turned in our commercial.  We edited on iMovie. I felt really bad for the other kids. The ones who had to edit on the school computers. I am a little sad that its over. But also happy because it was kind of stressful.

For our commercial we used a voiceover. At first it was my voice. But the voiceover I sent didn't get to Luisa. Until the next day when we were in class. By then it was way too late. So we were just going to record it in class. We went onto the stairs to record. But then security came and we had to go back to class.

After that debacale we changed Kat to the speaker because my voice sounded weird. But modern problems require modern solutions. So because it was really loud in the class. We decided to go to one of the closets. They are inside the classroom. Luckily, the boy who was in there let us go in and record. We kept stopping to laugh. Because Melina would do something funny. Or I would start laughing and kat could not concentrate.

Thanks! for sticking it out through our first project. But there is many more to come.

until next time :)

editing blog (not)

BIG NEWS. we finally finished filming. Now that that is over it is time to edit. We opened up our computers and dumped last class. But big problem our editing software is down. Other students tried. Even teachers tried but to our dismay the computers did not care. We thought perhaps it would be up this class. after we finished filming and came back. Mrs. Kat told us that the editing software was still down.

Today we had a pretty grueling schedule. We had to find new actors. Get our new actors to cooperate. We filmed around six shots on the track. Took a break. Then went onto the bus loop. Filming on the bus loop was by far the funniest scene we've shot. Even though, all we had to do was run towards the camera. Filming with friends is a lot harder than i thought it would be. When you friends with people you're forced to hang out with them but not only film with them. But also get mad at their lazy sides. One thing I have noticed is that when your friends with a person its harder to tell them that they are doing nothing.

Working with these new people was a whole lot easier than i thought. We had the same amount of people as last time. But seeing as we had such a tough time last time. It did feel more uncomplicated. Our filming process was so much fun. I do have a new found love of filming. Hopefully the blogs are back up next week. See you soon.

Filming

Today we finally started filming. All i have to say is i certainly have a new found sense of respect for directors and actors. It was one of the hardest things i have ever done. Especially since people were not listening and getting restless. Filming in the Florida heat wearing a sweater was also extremely hard haha. My group and I did find it very hard to get our actors to listen . Since they felt that they had the freedom of not going to class that the rules did not still apply. They were rude and relentless but we got throught it. We got multiple shots and I am very proud.

As i was one of the actors it was harder for me to control them since i was in it. Working on camera rather than behind the scenes forced me to interact with everyone. There was one boy that kept being annoying and getting aggravated anytime we filmed a new scene. They acted like they were professionals but really they were having a little bit of trouble adapting. We filmed multiple shots. But they thought we would only film one and thought that we were being perfectionists when we kept refilming. The hardest tjing was fighring oht how to break to tgem that they are fired on monday. The stress of having to literally take care of them like a babysitter was very annoying.

Since it was my groups video i wanted it to be perfect . Let's just say i may have turned into directors assistant- zilla. I will definitely apologise because i know that they tried their best. Also we had to work in an extremely busy enviroment. A lot of people wanted to film in the senior patio because it is beautiful. My friends and i went to dunkin the night before to pick up cups. Then when we were filming they were filled with water. And we used them as props as well as our bags. We switched out actors and played around with it. We got at least five takes for each scene.