Filming Blog: Holiday Park

 On Saturday, October 8, I started filming with my group. One of my group members was not present, so it was me and my other partner. I assumed the role of director and cameraman during our shoot. I brought my phone which I used to record. Corey brought a tripod that I used to film. As well as a Canon camcorder as a backup, just in case we faced difficulties with our phone. Also, Corey brought his Beats Headphones which is what the commercial is centralized on. It was fully charged when shooting, so we did not encounter any battery life problems with it. I read off of the storyboard that Corey drew and directed and filmed the scenes according to what we drew on our storyboard. We filmed at a park, so there were maybe 1-3 in the background at one point, but barely noticeable. The weather that day was overcast, so it is noticeable as well in the background, that the sky was very cloudy. We did not have to re-shoot too many times, there was one scene where we re-shot about 3 times, but that was the most. We optimized different angles during our shoot including high angles, low angles, and on eye-level. We also utilized a variety of shots including medium shot, medium long shots, medium close-ups, and close-ups. During the shoot, everything went smoothy with my phone, so we did not need to use the Canon camcorder at any point. The entire film process took about 30 minutes. During those 30 minutes we filmed the first 15 seconds of our commercial. During the shoot we did not encounter almost any problems with pedestrians and such. There was only one instance, where we had to wait a few seconds, for the pedestrians to move out. In conclusion, the first shoot when very smoothly, and we encountered almost not a single problem.