film blog the beach failure

         For today's filming blog we had some troubles because of the weather. It was raining which made it hard to film due to the fact that we cannot get the equipment wet. Not only could we not get the equipment wet but we couldn't get the right scenery. The video is supposed to take place on a beautiful summer day with the sun shining and all. When it did stop raining it was all cloudy and gray outside wasn't fitting for the theme. I was really upset because of all the issues that happened the last timed we filmed so many things went wrong. I wanted things to go better and not worse. But next weekend we will have the chance to shoot even better footage and make it very good. In all honesty, it would be better to finish filming next weekend.  The weather really ruined everything. Also if you guys didn't know aniyah is injured and has a whole brace around her knee. It was extremely difficult to get around and I felt so bad having her there. I felt like she felt useless and I just wanted her to know it was ok and she has already given so many great ideas that make up for her not being able to dance. I was also really scared to be out in the rain with a camera. It obviously not my property which means I would have to pay the money back for a new camera if anything were to happen to it. We wanted to follow our backup plan but it just didn't have the same vibe as our original. It was gonna be as great as we thought it could really be. The vibe was just so perfect and I didn't want to let go of the beautiful music video it could have been. Again lily and aniyah are the best partners to work with I really don't want to ever work with anyone else. They make things ao easy to get work done. We work so well together and our ideas just glide so smooth its crazy. I feel like we all bring different parts to the table that make this one good idea freaking amazing. Making the ideas and putting everything together can be really hard to transition. We want this one to look good and get better than a 90. This will go great after the next week of filming this break gives a perfect chance for perfect takes. We are gonna edit and then get the props all together again. This time I wanna really try to match the outfits to characters in the movie so it looks even betterWell, this is all for now ill update this blog after next week of filming.

The storyboard

  so this is our storyboard. This took a while because we had changed the whole song so it came out better in the production point of view.

 1. costumes

We are gonna have bathing suits on. Also shorts and all in a variety of colors of bathing suits.

2. Lighting

 For the music video, it has very bright lighting. So its gonna be like sun lighting that brightens up the whole view. It has to be controlled because the sun can change lighting during the day.

 3. Acting

We have to be happy and some scenes and dancing in others. So the song has the same moods. We have to act very happy in one scene and then when the songs change beat go to dancing.

 4. Makeup

For makeup, we don't know if there will be any. None of us really wear makeup on a daily basis so it would be a change for the music video. But there doesn't seem to be a lot of makeup in the video on the girls so if we did it would be neutral.

  5.props

 Props in the music video theres beach balls and surfboards so we will try to do the same. Of course, we would have to match up the colors in both videos.

 6. Scenery

 for scenery, we are gonna be at the beach with the water in the background. we might film by a lifeguard tower if they let us. otherwise, we are just gonna find a clear spot on the beach

 Angles- 

pan, medium shot, wide shot, tilt, high angle, low angle, and zoom in and out.

Editing-
 Cut shots from one activity to another. Than from playing in the sand to dancing by the shore.

sound-
We might be adding some wave and bird sounds in the background in the starting in the pan from one side of the beach to the other.

Planning blog

               So today is second day working on this project. We realized today that the past song that we chose was a little difficult to film a music video too. So we chose a new song and its great because its the same genre. Its called surf crazy from teen beach movie.We figured that this would be easier to film because it has a definate location that has water.
      Location: We are gonna be filming at the beach if all goes well. The weather has gotten pretty chilly lately and its gonna be cold filming in surf wear. If anything goes wrong we are gonna find a pool to film at. Or even film on a boat.
      Props: Its a beach themed music video so we are gonna have a lot of beach stuff. There are gonna be beach balls and probably sand castles. Maybe some surf boards and some boogy boards.
      Costumes: I am gonna be wearing a red bathing suit with white shorts. Lily is going to be wearing some type of bathing suit with  shorts and anyiah is gonna be wearing a tank top and shorts. We may be having some surprise people who are gonna help film and be extras in the back and they will be wearing swimming trunks.
       Health and safety: Being near water will not be too dangerous because we all know how to swim. We are all gonna have proper clothes on so we can stay warm. And we will be putting on sunblock so we will not be getting sun burned.

Intro to new project music video

        Well last class was the last day of our commercial . Sad to see it go but time for a new project. We have a new project its gonna be a music video 1 minute to a minute and 15 seconds. We made a couple mistakes in the last but we will be able to restart fresh and new and get things done right. Filimg was hard but we now know that we need to check for all eqiuppment and make sure there is nothing missing. We all are better at editing and can do it effeciently now. We even get to film it out of schools. This is going to be great. We are using a mutal favorite song called surf crazy from teen beach movie
        The genre of the music video is pop. We will be putting in lots of different shot as the original video does. They have panning shots going from room to room and zoom ins on people dancing. We are still figuring it out but we are leaning towards cutting the song in half and use the middle of the song. We have shots that are gonna be in one color and than in another color. Than change panninng shots into different colors.
   1. costumes
We are gonna have bathing suits on. Also shorts and all in veriaty of colors.
2. Lighting
 For the music video it has very bright lighting. So its gonna be like sun lighting that brightens up the whole view. It has to be controlled because the sun can change lighting during the day.
 3. Acting
We have to be happy and some scenes and dancing in others. So the song has the same moods. We have to act very happy in one scene and than when the songs changes beat go to dancing.
 4. Makeup
For makeup we dont know if there will be any. None of us really where makeup on a daily basis so it would be a change for the music video. But there doesnt seem to be a lot of makeup in the viideo on the girls so if we did it would be nuetral.
  5.props
 Props in the music video theres beach balls and surf boards so we will try to do the same. Of course we would have to match up the colors in both videos.
 6. Scenery
 for scenery we arent 100 percent sure what its going to be . We are trying to find a place where there is walls that match up the colors in the original video.

final day of editing

              Well, this project is coming to an end. After day one of filming going crazy andus not being able to find the parts that the camera needed. Then the camera dying on top of all of that. Then day two runs around and we had 30 minutes to shoot the entire commercial. By the way, did I mention we had to refilm everything because someone deleted all of our footage off of our other sd card! You must be thinking "this must get easier for the girls". It really didn't like at all. WE come around to our first day of editing and it was as simple as grabbing the sd card and plugging it in to dump the footage. Well with our luck it didn't get any easier. We go to the bin to get our sd card, and guess what happened? It was nowhere to be found. We first thought oh maybe we didn't get the number right, so we go to our check out paper and look for the card we took. WE got the number right but obviously, something was wrong if we couldn't find it where all the other cards were. So we ask and we were told that it might be in one of the cameras. We go sit down forgetting how many cameras there actually are and how long it would take just one person to check every single one. So the four of us worked together to look through every camera and find the sd card. we looked through a lot of cameras and the stack of ones left was getting short. The tension in the room was pretty high because if we did not find that sd card we were about to completely fail that whole project. Finally, there was one camera left and lily picked it up and there it was our sd card!! I have never been so anxious to find such a little piece of plastic. But that little piece of plastic would make our break our whole grade. We finally get t it plugged in and dump our footage and start looking through everything. We were pretty harsh on ourselves honestly. We picked on our every move and were very strategic in what we wanted to keep and what we wanted to cut out. But the class was gonna end soon so we had to wrap up and we got about a little less than halfway through editing projects. We go to class today just with the simple task of getting computer number 8 and finishing our editing. Well of course with our luck during this project we get to class and no computer number 8. In fact, it was the only computer missing. We sat down and waited till after the guy took attendance to go asking around trying to find it. So after all of that, we sat down and I noticed these girls i had never seen in my period that stayed for their study hall. They had the number 8. I had told them that and they said ok we will give it to you when we ware done "we will be done soon". Around ten minutes later she comes and gives me the laptop and it completely dead. Of course no we only have like 15 minutes left and we had to spend it waiting for the computer to get enough charge. Once it did i saved everything to google so we could work on it from another device and we got just a little more done. But for next class we will have to finish the other half. And hopefully nothing goes wrong this time. See you guys later.