Filming Blog

We began our new project which was to create a music video. We put a lot of thought into this from the song we were going to choose to the scenes we are going to take throughout the entire music video. Since it was our first time shooting a music video, it took quite a while to come up with different scenarios for each scene. We wanted the scenes to correlate with the song’s lyrics. To begin with, we had to decide a location we need to shoot in. We decided on two different locations that we will be shooting at. We didn’t want to shoot on school campus as almost everyone else is doing the exact same thing so we wanted to stand out, we decided to shoot the first half of the video at a nearby park and the rest at a beach. This will give us a beautiful background and creativity as well. Since a park is filled with objects like the slides and the monkey bars, we can utilize those as a prop for our scene. We chose the beach as it was relevant to our school about being free since the beach is associated with freedom and peacefulness. We then took quite some time to actually create a storyboard in our head and actually draw it out onto paper. At the end, it was quite successful and we were satisfied with our plan.

So far, we have plan out different scenarios for each scenes. For example, the beginning scene would be the actor grabbing a lot of snacks from a consignment store. The next scene would be all 3 actors driving in a car together and singing along to a song. The next scene would be a view out of the car window as we are driving past the beach. The next scene will be two actors playing volleyball on the beach and having a good time. The next scene will be actors trying on sunglasses at a beach store. The next scene would be coins of various dominations dropping on the ground. The following scene would be 2 actors sitting in the back of the car. The final scene would be two people walking down the beach at  sunset. All of these scenes will go along with the music video as each of the scene correlates well with not only the rhythm of the music but the lyrics as well.

We didn’t begin filming today was because we had to secure our actors and locations. All 3 actors had very different schedules that took some strategic planning to work out. For example, I am not available Monday through Thursday before 6 pm, the second actor is not free on certain days of work, and the third actor couldn’t film Friday through Sunday. Under the special circumstances of the Thanksgiving Break, we were determined to film on Tuesday, November 26th after school. During this time, we planned on filming our 1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th, and 11th scenes at our local park. Another important part of the process is securing out locations. In the storyboard, we had not planned to use more than 4 locations, these included the beach, the local park, the consignment store, and the car. Out of all these locations, we had to directly ask the manager of the consignment store to film. Our intent is not to disrupt business or to go against their company policy, so we believe it is only respectful to ask.