Filming at the park

 Today was the day we finished up the filming process and got a move on. I was the camera man, and we were trying to figure out the best location to do. We were at the closest park which provided the best scenery for our video. Also, the actress we needed was with us so we could do the rest of the scenes, along with another male actor to play another role. This music video had a lot of reused scenes with running at the camera and having many two shots. I again opted to not be in the video due to the fact that I'm a terrible actor who can’t keep a straight face. I was the director and cameraman, so I was the one in charge. My job was to find the spots to film in the park and crowd control. Figuring out what camera angles to use in each scene when they needed to be changed. While filming we encountered some problems like a group of people close to our set playing soccer and they almost messed up our shot by over kicking the ball. In addition, many scenes had us laughing too much to where we were losing time and I had to set them straight. That day was rough because we had to do almost the entire music video on that day due to the filming day before there were only two of us and we couldn’t not film the rest. Along with this, we had some problems with how we were going to film certain scenes with parts of the song having segments in different lengths. We had all of our scenes at the same length so we had to adjust. That day we were afraid that it would rain so we drew up a plan just incase that happened. The plan was to get to our friends house and use their green screen to film as if we were still in a field. And if we couldn't go to that, we would have to reschedule the filming day for another. Thankfully that did not happen and we had a successful day filming and we got a lot done. During the whole time we were under a time restraint with me having work and our friend needing to study. Overall it was very productive with a few setbacks and close calls.




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