Final Filming

Today in class Nyaira and I made more progress on our commercial project. We left off our filming the previous class period with the Autumn transformation and end scenes. The plan for today would be to film the beginning scenes when the character wakes up and goes through their morning routine. We signed our paperwork and got all of our equipment. This included the camera, tripod, and SD card. We began on the Senior patio with may wake up scene. It was a difficult decision if we wanted a wide shot of me sleeping or a closer shot. We decided to set up the tripod for a full body shot.

Next, we decided to show the passage of time in the character's morning routine. Nyaira and I felt the best way to accomplish this would be to jumpcut scenes together of mundane tasks. We first took a medium close up of the character getting coffee. Then we took a wide shot of the character walking from the car to school. That moved into a high angle pan of more walking in a new location. It ended with a shot from behind of walking to the final spot in a new hallway. We felt that each jumpcut to another shot should be different from the first as to keep the viewer interested. We did this by experimenting with different types of shots, angles, perspectives, and locations.

After reaching the last location, we tried to line up the shot as best as possible for ease of editing when we connect the sleep scene to the autumn transformation. We are going to line up those scenes with an extreme close-up of the character's eyes. After shooting that scene, we packed up and headed back into the classroom. We would repeat the same process as the last class and dump our footage into our special folder. However, we would have to transfer all data to our google drive as the editing service is not set up on our high school computers. We hope it will be up and running by the next class because, we have a lot of scenes to cut, refine, and layer for our final project. My partner and I aim to create an elevated commercial with real cuts, graphics, and voiceover. Hopefully, this commercial comes together in the editing process from the raw footage we filmed today. Stay tuned.