Filming blog

   Today we started to film our Nike commercial. I am not photogenic at all and i don't like to be in film so i was lucky enough to be a actor. My job was to capture shots with the camera. I actually like working with the camera. The camera was a nice quality for a school bought supply, and same with the tripod. the camera had a zooming in and out feature that could zoom in so far and keep a nice resolution. managing the camera was the easy part compared to the other job that had to do with, which was managing the actors. I felt at time being a shepherd to these "sheep", but it wasn't that bad. i was just directing one of our group members on how to aim their foot to be in front of the camera for like 10 minutes, whitch was the only bad part.

   To continue on shepherding the sheep, i had to keep on redirecting the rest of the group to stand in the right area because of lighting. When we filmed on the track it was a lighting nightmare. the florida sun was very very bright, rendering most of the track unfilmable. we had to film in this little corner of the track that was not being taken up by other students and was in the shade. when we filmed in the shade it was a pain because it was so dark. The only thing that saved our troubles was the lighting settings on the camera that fixed our problem. when we filmed on the staircase, there was no problem with lighting was good.

   I am surprised that the school given ssd card's storage was not filled to the brim with with random shots. We have these random shots because i am kind of a perfectionist in art and same with this film. some scenes we totally redid with another actor but exactly the same. usually the first shot was way better than the rest, but we still continued until we think that it was the ultimate shot. making these ultimate shots the tripod came in handy. I was the only one in our group that could work the connection between camera and the tripod. Using that tripod was my first time using a tripod and it was simple to use. I was the only one that preferred to use the tripod in my group because my hands are so shaky.