Filming blog

Friday marked to first day of filming for my group and I. To recap, my group and I are doing a music video for Hollaback by Gwen Stefani. We have a total of three locations for our music video. Our school, a grocery store and a park. My group and I figured that we could get some of the filming out of the way by staying after school on friday to film. I felt a little nervous to film after school. This is because we needed to have the track field in the back of the shots that we needed. Usually this is ok but this time in the season there are a lot of sports on the field. We have track practice, wrestling, and soccer practice all out on the same field. Nevertheless we were still able to film most of what we needed.
When we first of to the field there was only the wrestling team on the field. Since they were the only ones there my group and I asked their coach if we could film on the field. To our surprise the coach said that we could. We proceed to film but very fast so we weren't in anyone's way. Our shots that we need to film were the opening shots and a shot of all of us dancing forthe compilation that we want to make for the end of the music video. The shots might sound easy but it turns out we had to take a lot of time on just the first opening shot. For the first shot we wanted to film the main protagonist getting back at the bully  then walking away with the music playing in the background. The difficult part was trying not to laugh. Whenever anyone films with friends there are bound to be a couple of laughs. We had a lot more laughs than we wanted.
The other difficulty we came across was all of the sports that were happening around us. Since  we were on the track, the track team was practicing. Every time we were filming a part of the music video the track team would run in between us and we would have to reshot the scene. Instead of stopping we decided to time the runners so when ever they would go past us we could go back to filming. We are still amateurs at film. We can see this because we needed to film a clip of all of our group dancing for our music video. We were so rushed to go that we totally forgot to film that scene. Now we have to go back to the same spot to film that scene on Tuesday. Nevertheless we got what we mainly needed to do done. Not only that but the video that we got was really good. I'm really excited to see the end result of our project.