Last class me and my group started the filming process of our commercial. We were provided a camera, a tripod an SD card and cases for everything. We first started by signing the agreement sheet that let’s us use the school’s materials in our own responsibility. After that we were then provided with the camera and the other accessories. We headed to the school’s soccer field, where our project would be recorded. When we arrived we set everything up and were ready to record really quickly. We noticed that the camera quality wasn’t so good, so we tried recording with Camilo’s phone, and that ended up being a great idea because it was easier to record and the camera quality was better. The only problem with that change was that we couldn’t fit the phone on the tripod, so we had to re film some takes because the camera was shaking. We also got really lucky because it rained the day before so there were some puddles and we were able to improvise and get a really cool shot using the water, that ended up being our best one. We also improvised on some of our script because we weren’t able to get enough people to make a crowd so we took that out of our commercial.
My group was made up of 3 people. The group consisted of me, Camilo and Xavier. We separated ourselves in 3 different tasks. I was the actor, Camilo was the camera man and Xavier is the editor. What I had to do the whole time was act. I honestly don’t believe I’m a good actor but I think I did pretty good considering the fact that it only took us 20 minutes to record our whole commercial with extra takes and more. Our commercial was really well planned so when it came time to film all three of us were ready to do what we had to in the least amount of time possible. The commercial was all about soccer which is a sport that I play in real life, so some of the skills were easy to do because it’s something that I do on a daily basis. The most difficult shot we had was one that I had to score a goal from really far away, but we handled it pretty well with Camilo’s filming skills and my soccer skills we filmed that take in less than 5 tries. The filming part of our commercial went pretty smoothly and we really enjoyed doing it.
Our problems started to happen after the filming was done. After we finished filming we went to the bathroom to change our clothes since it was really hot outside. After changing we went back to the classroom and returned the sheet and all the materials provided from the school to us. After returning everything we were told that we had to dump all of our footage to the computer. We noticed that the process that we were going to do before would take a way a lot of the quality of our film because google drive compiles all the videos making the quality lower. So what we decided to do was to send all the videos to the computer using a charger but the computer was really slow and it wouldn’t load. When the computer finally loaded it gave us an error and we couldn’t find a way to dump our footage into the computer to get a grade. After many tries we ran out of time and the bell rang, our teacher allowed two of us to stay and try to finish dumping. Xavier and Camilo stayed because Camilo owes the phone and Xavier is an expert on computers, I went to class hoping they would get everything done. After 30 minutes we were finally able to dump our footage with quality to the school computer. Overall, our group did really well on this project and I had a lot of fun making it.
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