My journey in this filming process has been interesting. It has had its up and for the most part downs because of how things happened. So far in this process, I have yet to actually do any filming. This is due to my schedule and a miscommunication. As stated in my previous blogs the plan was for Jeffrey, Emilio, and Victoria to go filming last Wednesday, because I had to work that day, then we were all going to film on Saturday. However, when Saturday came around it looked as if only Jeffrey and I remembered or knew that there was a plan to film that day. Jefferey asked what time we were going to film and Victoria responded saying she was free after 1 on Sunday. Then Jefferey and I asked if we were still filming that day and Victoria didn't remember we were filming. Then on Sunday Victoria suggested that we film but because I thought that we were filming on Saturday I took off Saturday and worked the Sunday. So no filming ended up happening on Saturday or Sunday. Due to this, it puts us back more on our schedule to have the video finished.
Even though I did not get to film I asked each of my group members how the process went to see how the process overall was going and I got some significant feedback. From what I heard the process was difficult. What happened was that Jefferey took a camera from the class without making sure that it was charged up. So when they reach Emilio's apartment the camera was dead. Because the camera takes so long to charge they left it to charge for a little while then they decided to film while the camera was charging. The definitely put a hamper on the different shots, scenes, and movements that we wanted to make but they had to work around the situation. They ended up filming two scenes. One scene was Victoria calling Jefferey while he was playing video games with Emilio. The other scene was when Jeffrey was playing ping pong and Victoria ran up to him to try and talk to him. Since the camera wasn't charged, they weren't' able to get any takes in the mall or the park. However, I think given the circumstances that they were given, the footage that they got was good.
Even though I did not film I still got to see the footage that they took, and from the many shots that they took there were a couple shots that were good. We want to turn in the video before December 9th. So the new plan is to finish filming on Wednesday and then Edit on Thursday, then go over last looks on the day it's due. In case we are thrown off schedule, we created a backup plan. The plan will be to film on Thursday instead of Wednesday. After that someone will download the editing software on their computer, then we all get together over the weekend to edit and do last looks on the day it's due. Even though we are behind I have faith we will follow our current schedule. As for how this experience has been for me. It is definitely not what I expected. I expected it to be easier because we had the experience with the commercial but when we aren't' in a controlled area in terms of what we do, we have to take ore into consideration the different challenges we now face. I think this is a harder project than the commercial but I am excited for the end product of this project.
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