Filming process

Filming our commercial started with us checking out equipment. I filled out the agreement form, while one teammate signed us out to leave. We got to our plan A filming site, and luckily no one else was there, except for some people filming on the baseball court a little ways away. We started filming  inside the second floor of the building. There we did several takes of me, the actor, walking out the door. Before we shot, I had to take off my purse and put on my teammates backpack because it had no branding. I also put in my ear buds, as we had decided that I would be wearing them to then offer to the second actor in the final scene. All of this, our camera woman did hand held. This was because we decided to make this shot a tracking shot. We did do a version that wasn’t tracking, but it was less dynamic.

Next, we shot outside on the stairs. This part was easy, as it was just a wide shot. The hardest part was when it was time for both me and the other actor to work together. The timing was hard to get because we both had to be walking. That shot ended up taking a long time. Next, the camera woman had us do my topic shots of just waking from point A to point B, which is something different than our storyboard was. This wasn’t hard to do, but again our timing was the hardest to get right. Then, we had to do a long shot, ending on my shoes, which were converse. We did this many times in two different places. At first we tried a closeup, but then we decided to tilt down and move the camera in. 

Once we had everything filmed, we decided that we had enough time to reshoot some scenes, just in case. We decided to quickly run through all of them with the camera in the tripod. I think all of those shots were better than the previous ones. This is dude to us knowing what to do, and the other people filing in the background had left. Over all, the dumping process of the commercial was very stressful. It took forever to turn on the computer and get the information to load. In the end, we stayed after class to finish. I’m slightly worried that some of our dm footage didn’t save, but I’m sure it will be ok. Over all, this was a great experience. I wish to do it again!