Filming Blog for Music Video

Our group was supposed to film over the weekend, but we didn't. Everyone was busy throughout the day and if someone had time, there was a problem with transport. I think that we are going to film over Thanksgiving break. It would be better if we do it over the weekend because Thanksgiving would be over and I don't want to bother the other group members when they are with their family. Even though we did not film, when we start we know what to do. When we did our commercial we were a mess in the beginning. We did not know how to start and we were nervous so we kept laughing and had to keep retaking the first scene. For the music video, we know how we want the story to go and how we are going to portray it. Since the tittle of the song is "Girls Want To Have Fun" we are going to exactly what it says. The video will show a group of friends that are having fun. We also wanted to have a sleepover theme. I don't know if they can spend the night but we can just filming until the sun goes down, showing that time is passing. The video will start at my house then will show us going to different places. The places that we will go is the park, mall, and places to get food. Our video will also have some clips of us walking down the street or just being outside. The goal of the video is the exact definition of a group of teenagers hanging out on a Friday night. At some point, we will have pictures in the video so it is not the same all the time. I think it would be cool if we didn't have just one person behind the camera. Having different perspectives of the same thing would be better then just having it be basic. We will invite our friends and film. It will turn out better because we aren't really acting. For the commercial, the actors had to do a certain emotion and do it more than once. The music video will be us being ourselves. We necessarily don't need to do retakes of the same thing because everyone will be recording different things. At the end of the filming, we will pick the best footage.

Storyboard for Music Video

For the camera shot and angles we will use mostly wide shots. We want to get a lot of landscapes. We will also use two people shots and long shots. Tracking shots will also be used because we can have the camera following us. I think we will also be using close-ups because we might be recording ourselves to make the viewer feel like a friend.  Our costumes are just going to be t shirts and shorts. But the weather could be colder so maybe jeans and shirts. And if it rains then well just wear leggings and have umbrellas.

2. The lighting is gonna be dark. We are going for a very chill vibe. The more mellow and dark the better. Also we are using strobe lights maybe.

3. We aren't going to be acting per see perhaps just playing up our personality to the cameras but just being ourselves whilst hanging out.

4. There is a scene where we will be messing around with makeup. Just messing around. So it wont look good but just for fun.

5. Our props are not really props. But more so food and our skateboards.

6. Our scenery will be very aesthetic and we will be filming at mostly stores and kats house.

Planning For Music Video

For our schedule, everyone is coming to my house on a Saturday. We will film some scenes in my house. Then we will go to the "skate park", it is actually just the back of a mechanic shop. After we will go to McDonalds. We will be also go to an ice cream place and overall spend the most time at my house. For our location we decided to have more than one. We decided to film at around three or four locations. Our locations are most likely going to be my house, the skate park, and we might film at the ice cream shops and maybe some other extra places. We are going to most likely to have a sleepover.We are going to ask for permission to film at all the places. We will have a first aid kit on hand and our waterbottles. Our costumes are going to be normal going out clothes. Were going for a simple girls night theme, so we will keep our outfits very simple such as jeans, simple shirts, jackets, hoodies. For our props we will be using skateboards, bicycles, skates, cameras, face masks, pillows, and pajamas.. We will be using these for our footage. We will be going to the beach, park, my house and we will be using these props at these locations. Since our costumes is just normal teenager clothes we will be fine with simple clothes. For our makeup we will also keep it simple, some if they want they can choose to wear makeup or if they do not want they do not have to. At the end its a "girls just want to have fun" music video. All we will be doing is having fun

Intro to New Project- Music Video

We just finished our commercial. The storyboard helped us a lot because we did not have to film scenes that we were not going to use. The voiceover was the hardest part because we had to write a script that was long enough and that it had all the information we needed. Then we need to make sure that it sounded good and that the timing was right.

Right now we are going to start our new project. The song that we chose was Girls Just Want To Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper. We picked this song because we wanted to have a fun theme for our music video. The song came out in the 80s. It is a light-hearted song about a girl that just want to have fun hence the tittle, hence the title of the song. Our backup songs will be Material Girl by Madonna or Marvin’s Room by Drake.

1. For costumes we are decided to use normal clothes to film. We might show out different styles throughout the video. 
2. The lighting will be different in the video. We will be in different places in different times of the day.
3. The acting won’t seem like acting. We are going to hang out with a couple of friends and just record our selves 
4. For makeup it won’t be over the top. We will have a natural day to day look or just be bare face.  
5. For props we will use skateboards or food. Then we might go to places and use the things around us as “props”
6. For the setting we will many places. We will be at my house, a place to skate, Mcdonalds, or the beach

Final Blog For The Commercial

For the past two classes our group was editing and finishing the commercial. We ended up doing it on Luisa’s phone. Last class we edited the video. The transitions in our video came out nice. We cut off the last scene that we put on the storyboard. Even thought we did that, the commercial was still the length that it was supposed to be. It didn’t take as long as I expected. Today in class we were trying to write a script for the voice over. For some ideas we searched other infomercials and it gave us inspiration of what we are going to write. I’m going to write a draft and send it to our group to see what they think. Khiara is doing the voiceover for the commercial. We have the beginning done in our script but we don’t know where to take it from there. I think I’ll write mostly about the products that they sell and how it could make you in a better mood. Then, I might write about how Dunkin is better than their competitors. I’m going to send the script tomorrow and Khiara will change anything that she’ll think will make it better. Then, she will record her saying it and send it to Luisa. Finally, Luisa will put it in our commercial and we will be done. Overall I think that our project came out really good. I thought that it was going to be very challenging and time consuming. We did have a few bumps on the road but that help the group not to worry and have solutions for everything.