Filming blog

We didn’t film until the thanksgiving break started. We waited because everyone’s schedule wasn’t matching up. Someone had practice or too much homework. We also had to make sure one of our group members was able to get the equipment we needed. So on Tuesday we started filming. We were going to go to the beach to film on Tuesday but that didn’t work out. We decided it would be smarter to go to the park which included a few scenes in the music video. I wanted to get the filming done as fast as possible. The first scene we decided to do was the scene were we were sitting on the bleachers. There was no reason in particular why we chose this scene first, we just saw the bleachers and walked toward them. For this scene me and a member pretended like we were talking to give the sense of friendship. The scene was filmed using our group members drone with a camera built into it. The next scene we did was us laying in the field. The park had a big soccer field & no one was there luckly. So another team mate and I layed down facing opposite directions in the grass just looking up. The other member took about 4 shots. From the drone moving closer to us then going far away. Then we filmed the scene where coins were hitting the ground. Originally we were going to drop a variety of coins but we decided to just stick with pennies because we thought the viewer would get more of the “broke” concept from the song with just pennies. The last scene we filmed for this day was of me and a group member sitting in the back of my car. We opened the trunk of the car and sat inside of it. We pretended to talk during the scene because we weren’t sure what else we could do. The next day we filmed was on thanksgiving morning. We went to the beach at 9 because this was the only other time we could film; everyone was busy the other days. The first scene we filmed was in a Walgreens. I stood in front of all the chips. Then when we started rolling I grabbed all of the chips that I could see to make it look like there was not a care in the world. We had a little bit of a difficult time because people kept walking through the show. It wasn’t their fault though, they didn’t know we were filming. Then we decided to knock the scene of us driving in the car and replace it with me trying on bags in the Walgreens. We did this because we were already in the Walgreens and thought it was a good and more safe idea. Before we left the store we filmed one last scene. It was the scene of the sunglasses. I recorded a member trying on different sunglasses and looking at the camera. Then the three of us walked to the beach. Here we filmed a scene of a group member chasing me and splashing me with water. The another scene of me and another group member walking down the beach. One of the group members also took a few pan shots of the beach and sky. Before we left we filmed one last scene of one of the group members underwater swimming. We switched out some of the scenes because we thought they would be more convenient to do other ones. For example, we took out the volleyball scene and replaced it with another scene we took at the beach. We did this because the beach that we went to did not have a volleyball net.