Music Video Filming Blog 2

We recently finished filming our music video project. We did a lot more and I finished everything I set out to do. We had a little less than half of our video left to film when we had filmed last time. This time, I filmed some scenes at my house instead of at my teammates house like last time. A lot of what  did was the set up before my teammate got there. I set up the dinner that we needed shown in the scene and set up the tripod in the dining room to make the scene look smooth. I also adjusted the lighting in the rooms to look perfect for the shot. We didn't have to worry much about the sunlight outside since it was filmed at night. I also made sure the background of the scenes looked more like a restaurant. That meant making sure there weren't any photo frames or anything that would give away the actual location.
I set up the tripod in places where we needed it and screwed the camera into it. This was a challenge because when we toke the tripod out of its case, a piece of it broke off. The piece that broke off was the one that helped move the lock on the camera part to put the camera on or off the tripod. This made actually putting it together very hard. We ended up finding a way to pry the lock gently so we could lock and unlock the latch. Luckily it wasn't too important of a part. Other than that, the other parts of setting up the tripod went well. I just had to put it in place once the camera was in. I did have to decide the positioning of the camera as well. I ended up having to do a lot of filming because my teammate was the actor for the scenes.
Then came the actual filming part. I had to do a lot of takes because sometimes things would get in the way of the shot and we had to start over. Sometimes my teammate and I would laugh and have to start over again and again. Other times we had to restart because we didn't like the way something looked. When that happened I had to give feedback to the actor and refilm it. I filmed both inside and outside so the lighting was a bit tough to get right. In a lot of scenes we had to film extra in case we might need it later. If a clip was too short we had to film it again. This was annoying but in the end was probably smarter than not re-filming them. One part I did that I especially liked was filming the dinner scene.