Filming blog

  We still haven’t filmed our music video. We will film over thanksgiving break and we will be using my phone to shoot the music video. We will film someday over thanksgiving break and we will for now just talk over all the details such as what we are doing, how we will edit, our backup plans if the weather isn’t good and other things. We planned on filming outside such as the park, the beach, ice cream shops, etc. In case it rains or the weather isn’t so nice we will have to have a back up plan on what we will do if that happens. We have decided that if it does rain we will have a sleepover and film at someone’s house. We will make the music video look like a sleepover type thing. On our editing we have decided on how we want it to look. We will have many takes on one clip pick our best one and move on the next part. After that we will look over our clips and pick our best one of each one we took. We will pick our best ones and then move on to editing. For our editing part we will have pictures and we will add them into the music video. We will also add lyrics at the bottom of the screen so people know the actual music lyrics to the song and then we will have some cute design effects added into it and at the end hope for it to look good and as good as possible. After that we will watch the music video a couple times to look over any details and things we have messed up on such as tiny details on grammar, cut off parts, anything that could mess up the music video we will look over to make sure it is good to turn in. We will have extras for background purposes such as people playing around in the park, or other people ordering ice cream, and people at the park riding their bikes, skating around, kids running anything like that. For our sleepover we will some other girls over to make it look more like a music video and all girls having fun just like the song tittle and the meaning of the song “girls just want to have fun”. We have two people editing our music video and two people directing it. We will have like ten extra girls in the music video and we will most likely switch jobs so we will all have a chance to be in the music video. We will also meet up another day so we can all look over the editing like i said and we will be able to decide weather or not we are missing something and if we are then we will watch it all together and turn it in.

Storyboard

For the camera shot and angles we will use mostly wide shots. We want to get a lot of landscapes. We will also use two people shots and long shots. Tracking shots will also be used because we can have the camera following us. I think we will also be using close-ups because we might be recording ourselves to make the viewer feel like a friend.  Our costumes are just going to be t shirts and shorts. But the weather could be colder so maybe jeans and shirts. And if it rains then well just wear leggings and have umbrellas.  

Planning

Our costumes are going to be normal going out clothes. Were going for a simple girls night theme, so we will keep our outfits very simple such as jeans, simple shirts, jackets, hoodies. For our props we will be using skateboards, bicycles, skates, cameras, face masks, pillows, and pajamas.. We will be using these for our footage. We will be going to the beach, park, Kats house and we will be using these props at these locations. Since our costumes is just normal teenager clothes we will be fine with simple clothes. For our makeup we will also keep it simple, some if they want they can choose to wear makeup or if they do not want they do not have to. At the end its a "girls just want to have fun" music video. All we will be doing is having fun
For our location we decided to have more than one. We decided to film at around three or four locations. Our locations are most likely going to be Kats house, the skate park, and we might film at the ice cream shops and maybe some other extra places. We are going to most likely to have a sleepover.We are going to ask for permission to film ata all the places. We will have a first aid kit on hand and our waterbottles.
For our schedule, everyone is coming to my house on a Saturday. We will film some scenes in my house. Then we will go to the "skate park", it is actually just the back of a mechanic shop. After we will go to McDonalds. We will be also go to an icecream place and overall spend the most time at my house.

Intro to new project

  We just got done with our commercial project. The storyboard helped a lot, it gave us a plan and helped us film and structure our blogs. The hardest thing was editing because we had to edit and cut and add voice overs. The voice over was pretty hard too because we had to record it more than ten times. After we actually recorded a good one without messing up then we had to go and split them up and place them over the correct footage. After this last project i now know what we can curve around and not do it again on the next project. at first i didn't really know what was going on but then i caught up with the rest of the class.
   Our song is girls just want to have fun by Cindy Lauper because our group is full of girls so we thought that would be a great. So our plan is to just film us all having fun. Going out to the beach, park, mcdonalds. Our backup song material girl by madonna and marvins room by drake. We'll keep the same theme for all of them.
  1. Camera Angles- For our camera angles we age going to use zoom, slow motion, pan, eye level, close up, two shots, three shots, and medium close up. Those will all come together and make it all come together.
  2. Lighting- Well  mostly be using dark with minimum light. Still enough light for us to see and for it to be caught on camera but as little light as possible.
  3. Acting-
  4. Makeup- For makeup were going
  5. Props-
  6. Setting- For our setting we will be going to as many places as we can and are able to such as the beach, movies, mcdonalds, parks, and other places. They all make up our theme for the song.

Final Blog

  We went to class and got started on choosing our best footages to start editing. We had two to three shots for each script we had made, so we picked one of each. We watched every single one and went over which one had more details and which one was better. I then downloaded iMovie so we could start editing. I went ahead and watched all of our footage again to see if i had to crop anything out or cut any scenes, or split any footage in half. I also went over our angles, how we did everything. After watching our shots a couple times i went ahead and dumped every single footage on iMovie. We just watched how it looked all together and how long it was to see if we had to crop anything out, or cut anything short. I had to split a couple shots, i also had to cut some short because we had like one minute long commercial. So i went ahead and cut it shorter and watched it over to see if i had cut anything important out.
   After we finished cutting everything and making sure i hadn’t missed anything or took anything important out by accident, we went ahead and started talking about our script for our voice over. Since our commercial is a infomercial we decided to talk a little about our shots and what they’re feeling but we then decided we needed some more ideas so we all went and did some research on infomercials. We all watched different videos and analyzed how they were made, the angles, how they voiced it over. After watching and doing some research we went ahead and started writing down what we were going to say for our voice over. While the other people in my group did that i went and started taking out the sound from every clip, and only keeping some sounds that would be good use as sound affects such as the bell ringing. I cut out that sound of the bell ringing and placed it on another shot that we took. It would make more sense.
   After i cut out the sounds and added sound affects we decided we needed some transitions and to cut it shorter since it was still over 30 seconds long. It was around 59 seconds long and we then decided that some scenes could’ve been split and then transitioned back to where i had cut it off. After doing all of that we went and did some more research on dunkin commercials just to make sure. We then decided to add the dunkin logo as the brands logo. Which made it look more alike to a commercial. We then talked more about what our script was going to say and who would do the voice over. We decided on one of our group members to do it and then we continued with what she was going to say. We also decided to add the actual “America runs on dunkin” at the end of our commercial. After we were all set we just watched it over to make sure we had everything done correctly and went ahead and finished our script.