filming blog.

Since the last filming blog my group was yet to film for our music video. We were not sure if we were going to do part of it in Florida and part of it in Texas because I was traveling for Thanksgiving break. But at last, we filmed. I believe the more correct term would be “I filmed”. The filming process was difficult at times but overall rewarding. Once I was on vacation I asked my cousin to help me film because my group members were not with me. My cousin also gathered a few of his friends to help me film; they also were in our music video. We started off by selecting my outfits that would come off as either glamorous or incognito. Then we went outside and found a nice side walk with Fall trees on it so that our music video would have a Fall look. The first scene we did many times and ended up re-doing once we filmed the second scene.
When we started filming the second scene we realized that we should do a camera movement in-between both the first and second scene so that the jump cut would look smoother. In the first scene we did a particularly cool effect where a flashlight was shined into the camera to create the effect of paparazzi taking photos. We re-filmed the first and second scene and moved on to the next scene. In the third scene I walked out of “the V.I.P. room”.  For this we originally storyboarded me going behind a red rope and having a bunch of extras flock over me. Instead, since we could not find any extras, we decided to make the V.I.P. area a room. I printed out a piece of paper that said “V.I.P.” on it and taped it to the door. The final scene ended up looking like me walking out of the V.I.P. room with my cousin’s friend as the “bouncer”. Then for the fourth and fifth scene we just stuck to the storyboard and the were relatively easy to film. After, I changed into fancier “movie star” clothes for my big scene.
One of the issues when filming the chorus was the lighting. We wanted to get some guitars in the back but the lights were spread all across the wall. We tried turning the lights off but then we found that our video was too dark to film. Eventually, we tweaked and found a spot in the room where the lighting was good for us to film. In order to get my lip syncing perfect, we played the music out loud while filming. The next day, I had the change into my same outfit to do my tilt, then close up. The last part we filmed was the ending part. We wanted the end to be dark so we had to film it at night. Overall the filming process took two days. The most frustrating this was that at the end of filming everything, I realized we filmed portrait and not landscape which means part of our Fall landscape will be cut off.