Filming Day One Blog

The first day of filming we only recorded a few clips. Only one of our team members were at school and the other team member who was supposed to be included in our scene was not in class. However, Darrow and I recorded the scenery with the skate clips. We did multiple scenes. One of our scenes was Darrow skating down the hallway on his skateboard, the other clips were Darrow going down a walkway that slopes downward. In the scene where Darrow went down the walkway that sloped, we did majority of the scene in slow action shots. We performed a high rise shot, and a low shot by his feet. Another scene we created was Darrow doing a trick on his skateboard in the air in slow motion, and Darrow whipping the skateboard around the corner of a walkway. The next scenes we need to shoot will include Darrow running on the track acting exhausted, Darrow receiving a RedBull and drinking it, and then Darrow running the track perfectly. After all of our scenes are complete, Ella and I will edit the scenery videos and add music to create our final advertisement. The clips of Darrow skating will be edited to the sound of the music. The scenes of Darrow skating, and running the track with major speed will be cross edited where the clips switch in different effects. Next class the filming process will be done and editing will begin. In every clip we made sure to switch the scenery and we made sure to have a good angle shot at all times with a clear view and camera. There were no scenes where other students were noticed, therefor the full focus of the commercial is on Darrow and the RedBull. Darrow, Ella and I had a discussion on what roles we will be playing in making our commercial as well as the importance and significance of each one. After all filming is complete, the team and I need to focus on finding a background song that will match the advertisement to add a more dramatic effect. My idea for a song was Wake Up by Cheese People. The reason I chose this song in particular was because the song was upbeat and fun and it would go very well with our commercial. An idea Ella came up with was a slower pace song for the beginning shots where Darrow was not doing well, and then an upbeat dramatic music tone for when the RedBull's energy kicked in and gave a kick of energy and speed. The next shooting will begin next class and then the creativity aspect of the project will be handed over to Ella as far as editing and clip rotation.