Filming

      Today in class we spent the day filming our commercials based on the storyboard we created. We used a series of shots, for example an establishing shot and close up shot. The purpose of our commercial is to persuade upcoming freshman to join our school campus. We made sure to capture the schools environment and the people within it. Our costumes consisted of school t-shirts and other accessories to reinforce school spirit. Each shot had multiple takes so that we can chose the best one in the end and to see what mistakes need to be fixed in our film. The storyboard helped a lot for the making of our commercial because it gave us a plan as to what to do first or what to do in general. We were not allowed to use any indoor buildings for our scenes so all of our shots are located outside on our campus. Using the notes we took on the equipment we were able to figure out how to work all of it correctly.
      Personally, I did many different things to benefit our commercial. I helped behind the camera to get shots of many different places in our school using the angles that we decided to use precisely. I also was in front of the camera for some scenes and acted to my best ability depending on what the scene was about. I persuaded others from different groups to join our commercial since they attend Fort Lauderdale High and we needed a large amount of people for a specific part at the end. We also had to make sure that the lighting was good in each take so that the audience can see clearly to ensure they understand what’s happening and why. Towards the end of class, we used the computers and techniques we learned recently to dump our footage from the SD card onto the computer of our choice. We utilized the SD card reader to do this process and recovered our footage successfully. This was an interesting experience since it was my first time ever filming something with actual camera equipment and I believe our final product will do well. We will continue filming our last scenes next class so that we can edit our project and do our best to revise/add whatever is needed.
     We filmed a total of 7 scenes for our commercial and many takes for each one. We have many options to chose from for our final product.For the first scene, we are inserting an establishing shot of our school from our website and then cropping it to show how our campus looks. Our next scene was a close up shot of one person and we applied blue face paint to show our school spirit and school colors. Next, we did a pan shot of many of the students who are here at Fort Lauderdale High in front of our media center. Another shot that we filmed was of the outside of our cafeteria and we showed students making conversation while enjoying their inexpensive school lunch. We filmed a number of shots showing the environment of our school for example a tracking shot of one of our school murals. Our last shot was a few of our students coming together to form the shape of a flying L our schools mascot. The purpose of all of these scenes is to suggest the benefits of our school and persuade people to come to Fort Lauderdale High.