Film day!


I was finally able to see my group and film the video with them. It took almost 3 hours to be able to get every scene right with the other actors we had with us(Jackson and Nate) but we made it possible and finally finished it. It was really tough because at first Lola and I were confused on how to be able to time the music right when connecting the different clips, but her and I came up with the bright idea of while shooting each scene, to play the specific part of the song in the background. This was extensively helpful throughout the whole music video. I was not in the video much, only for a few simple scenes. My other group mates Lola and Sabrina were mostly in almost the whole video. Michaela was unfortunately not able to join us with this filming session either, because she had work to attend to at the time we filmed after school. It was important for us to get it done, because otherwise the time left to film would be really scrunched up since all of us were busy on the whole weekend. I am very pleased with the outcome of our clips because they came out so much better than what i expected. I believe my group and I did a much better job with this music video rather than our commercial. There was more action to this one and it made more sense, whereas the commercial was sort of all over the place since it was the first time I had personally done a project like that one. What I’m trying to say is everything was setup more properly and organized this time around even though we mostly improvised for a lot of it. Our story board was switched around a bit from the original scenes of 10-12. We did not end up going to any nice downtown areas for Christmas decorations, but instead while we were at Lola’s house, we filmed walking past a lot of her neighbors houses which were decorated. This was all in all much less time consuming and was convenient for everyone. I'm very happy we were able to get the main part of the project done. We were very crunched up on time but we did end up making it work well. Everything turned out much better than the expectations i had which I'm very proud of. There were also a lot of different ideas incorporated from each of us in order to spice things up nicely. For example, the glitter really brightened the last scene we shot for the video and made it seem like a more magical story! 


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