Filming Blog

     Bianca and I planned on filming on Tuesday and Friday. On Tuesday we walked from school to the park with our friends. Our friends were going to be the backup dancers. We got to the park and set up by the area with the tables. We put our bags down and set up the camera and tripod. We took out the story board to see what we had to film. We asked our friends if they could come with us to the beach to film. They said that they couldn’t because they were busy. Bianca and I realized that we wouldn’t have anybody for the beach scenes. We were stressed out and trying to come up with a plan on what to do. One of my friends suggested that we do the music video with Barbie’s. We considered it, but then we saw that we would have to buy the dolls and all of the stuff.

     We realized that it was too much money. We were stressing out on what to do. We wasted about 30 minutes trying to figure something out. We decided to not do the scenes at the beach and just do it at the park. We had to hurry because we were all leaving at 4:30. For our first scene we needed a car, but we didn’t have one. Bianca tried to figure something out. We ended up cutting out the car scene. We started to film the first part. I came up with the idea of maybe using paper balls, so that the backup dancers could through them at each other to show that they were having fun. We filmed that part with the paper balls and then did the part with the radio.

     Since we couldn’t do the scenes at the beach we decided to go to the part of the park where there were trees. We told our friends to act like the were playing around and throwing paper balls at each other. We had the main singer do her part of the beach scenes, but instead do it by the trees. We saw that the camera was running out of battery. We didn’t have anywhere to charge it. We were on a time limit, so we had to work quickly. We had the backup dancers go into a circle and pretend to be gossiping about the main singers shoes. Then we did a shot where it went from the main singer to the backup dancers shoes. We had to film the last scene quickly because the battery was dying. We finished everything on time.