filming

          Hey, guys whats ups. Today's blog will be about the filming process of our commercial. We started the day by getting our equipment sign out forms in so we could take out a camera, tripod and sd card. Next, we head to the locker room and change into all of our costumes for filming. Lily and aniyah got into the running clothes and I got into my "coach" outfit. We walk out to the track to film the running. but we get out everything to start we realize that we made the mistake of not checking if we had everything. We didn't have the attechment piece to connect the camera to the tripod. By the way, the field is like a 7-minute walk to and from the AICE media room. Thankfully weren't up in building 21 third floor or we wouldn't have had any time to film anything. 

          You will never guess what happened next. I finally run back to the track to get started with attaching the camera to the tripod. I open the camera to put the sd card in and we film for about 2 minutes and the camera dies! Now we have to completely restart. We had to take the sd card out and detach it from the tripod and this time Lily and anyiah had to run and go get a new camera. They really ran there and ran back so we would have at least 30 minutes to film. So they got back now the gatorade is warm (very gross). we are all sweating because the sun was beaming on us and we had to share the track with other people who had our same idea. We get everything set up we adjust our camera and we finally start shooting. NOw let me tell you about the actual process.

          I was in charge of the shooting of the film. I set the first angle to show the round corner of the track so show the girls running laps. We got some extra footage like showing them stretch. We got some close-ups of the clothes they were wearing kind of like a full-body scan. But the most fun shot was getting the scene where lily has to faint. She used the padding from the track runners to support her fall from the eye-level shot. Then we cut and started again when we got her laying on the track from a crane angle. We shot this part so many times because we really wanted to get it perfect. the girls ran a lot and I felt bad because we kept retaking the scenes and it was so hot. But we were all troopers for getting through that rough start with all the problems hitting us when we were trying to film. We had to rush back to make it in time to be back by 12:45. I had to stay a little late and dump the footage but thankfully everything worked out in the end. ILL see you on Monday byee.