Filming

Yesterday my group and I got to film for the first time. We were filming for our FLHS commercial. We finally got a chance to bring our storyboard to life. We started this process in the classroom where we were distributed our filming gear: Cameras, tripods, bags, passes, etc. I carried the tripod and props to our first filming location. Which was the main stairs of building 5. This is where we shot our first two scenes. For the first scene that we shot I was the actor. I had to put face paint in a close up. For our next scene, we stayed in the same spot, because we thought that the scenes would flow together, or be inner changeable. My teammate Montana and I were the subjects. We had to do a medium close up, two shot. In the scene we put blue confetti in our hands and then blew them into the camera. This scene was one of my favorite that we did. After we shot this a couple times we decided it was time to move to the next scene. Our next scene was shot in the same location we just centered ourselves with the staircase. We did this instead of filming in the bus loop, out of mm convenience. It helped us save time and we felt it would be a better transition. For this scene we had one of our classmates to film my group and two other volunteers from our class. We all stood in a line. I had the idea to film a few of takes while holding up our L’s.

We moved to our next location and I carried the tripod and camera. This location, was the high top tables outside of our cafeteria. When we got to this location I had set up the tripod and placed where I thought it would fulfill our scene. However, after my teammate looked at the placement and lighting, she thought it would be a better idea to move the camera to the other side to get better lighting for the scene. For this scene, we didn’t have someone to record so I pressed record and ran over to the table where my teammates were waiting. We decided we were going to just edit out the part where I’m running. In this scene we were pretending to eat lunch, as a group. This scene was an easy one to film unlike our next scene.

Our next location was at the mural at the front of the school. I only carried the props to this location, because my teammate wanted to carry the camera and tripod, but had some trouble doing so. At this location we all took turns being in the scene and filming. We did this because it was a very hard shot to shoot. So we tried to get the shot as best as we could. This shot was of two students walking by. We tried to get this as a low angle tracking shot, but we had some difficulty with that.

We grabbed our gear and moved onto the next place. We then got a bunch of our classmates to be in this next scene. It was at a small patio type area by a stair case. All of the subjects stood in the patio, while I stood on the stairs with the camera and tripod. I directed them into forming an L. I then took the shot of them holding their L’s up and then waving at the camera. This scene was a lot easier then I thought it would be.

We were going to shoot a scene where we jump on the golf cart as we tell the viewers that we “Hope to see you next school year.” We ran out of time and had to get back to class to dump. When we got back to class Montana and I dumped all of our footage and saved it into a file on the computer. I then went a step further and saved the videos to my google drive, so I had access to them at anytime.