Filming Blog

When we walked into the class, it was a little chaotic. It was our only day to film our scenes and there wasn't time to play around. Before we even got our camera, we needed to fix one of my group mate's previous blog which would affect all of our grades. We finished helping him then went to receive our camera. Although I was expecting better quality, it did still function as a camera. We received the camera, the SD card, and the tripod bag. We also were supposed to sign out and get a pass but none of us heard to do so. When we went to the track we were kind of set back due to the fact that we didn't have the plate that connected the camera to the tripod. After getting that back we finally started working on our commercial. The time to film was upon us.

Our group chose to do a commercial for Nike. In our storyboard, we planned on doing four sports and then a Gatorade bottle scene then close it out. Unfortunately, we were unable to complete two of the six scenes. Instead, we just replaced them with a different scene but still represented Nike. So like we planned, we recorded the track scene, the football scene, and a basketball scene. To make up for not doing the soccer or Gatorade scene, we added an actual "Just Do It" scene and another basketball dribbling scene. We had many takes as we had to edit how we wanted our scene to be filmed. And in every scene, you can see a Nike accessory on at least one of us. We included a Nike headband, Nike shoes, and Nike socks. We could've added more Nike products to see what we're representing.

After the whole filming process, I was relieved that we got all of our scenes recorded and dumped onto a computer. The dumping portion was the easiest part. All we had to do was get an SD card reader, insert our SD card, and then move our films from the SD card onto the computer. Just in case our files got deleted I uploaded the folder onto Google Drive. This will also come in handy for the editing part if I want to work on it at home. I feel like this was actually kind of fun to do. Although there was a lot of stress making a commercial with my friends is exciting. My favorite part was being in the video recording my basketball crossover. And with the experience, my group has in editing the next portion shouldn't really be that difficult either. On to editing and finishing up our commercial.