Exciting Day on the Set

    Today, my group and I started to film for our music video. From school, I met up with my group members and traveled to a group member's house, to use as the set. We first started getting undressed from our school clothes into our party clothes, as written on our storyboard. Katie, Jade, and I brought dresses and heels to wear for the video. After we were changed we began filming! I had to start acting and pretend that I was putting on makeup in-front of a vanity for this scene. After my scene, I became the filmer for the next few scenes. I filmed other group members, such as Katie and Jade "getting ready" for the party. Jade however had already put on her outfit, so I had to put a hoodie over her dress to make it look like she wasn't changed for the video. After the first three scenes were filmed, off camera, I put on bright eye shadow, as well as my other group members, to show more of a party look. Then, I transfered locations to the front yard. It took a while to figure out how to make it look like all of my group members were in different locations. Firstly, I filmed one of my group members, Jade, leaving Katie's backyard through the gate. Then, I knocked on a neighbor's door to ask if I was able to film my group member leaving their house through their front door. The neighbors agreed and from there, I filmed Katie walking out of their house. Next, I handed the camera to Katie and she filmed me walking out of the other side of her backyard. I watched back the clips and everyone did a great job acting and filming. For our next scene, I had one of my classmates, who wasn't in my group, film me and my other group members because all of us were featured in the next scene. My group members and I, were filmed as I walked to the front door and high fiving each other. For the last scene that was being filmed today, I again had the same classmate film to replace my spot, and I was shown fixing Katie's hair for "the party." I ran out of time cause I had to leave, so as a group, decided to have another day of filming later on in the week! 



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