Filming the Music Video

     While filming this music video the number of the problems that surfaced is insane. To provide more context for what happened, I must first restate that the filming was going to take place at a friends house. Before filming out music video me and my team were going to help them with their music video. This took approximately 3-4 hours. While we were helping them with their music video we were expecting our third teammate to arrive. Around 12 he texted saying he wouldn’t be able to come because of an emergency one of his close friends had. Neither of us replied and kept on helping in anyway we could. When it came to our turn we were in need of a male actor. However, when we needed one the other two from the other group had to leave. At this point I was extremely annoyed because they used up quite a bit of the cameras battery (which we were sharing) and weren’t going to help us. This led me and my partner Rafael to steer away from the original storyboard.
     We debated several options. One of these options was changing the gender roles around because we had two girls (including myself) and one male. Rafael didn’t like this idea very much so we fell back on an idea presented a lot earlier which was to film the whole video from a point of view and have Mariapaula be the man. We had to wait until it was dark so we filmed the inside scenes first. We began with the shot of the bathroom and decided to add a person passed out in it. We popped a confetti popper and collected the confetti in a bag and spread it in Mariapaula’s bathroom. After this we began rehearsing the scenes of the “lover” in the bar turning around. These scenes made me very unhappy, not only because I hated the way I looked in them, but also because I wasn’t getting the affect I wanted. We improvised by changing the scene to just her eyes looking at him with annoyance.
     We continued to do the scenes from a point of view perspective. We waited for it to get dark outside to film the beginning of the music video. We took multiple shots of the man walking to the “bar” but didn’t like many of them. We also played the song to know how long the scene had to be and so that it went with the beat. We also realized we had a blank spot where we needed to add a scene. We decided to add the man hesitating to open the door. (26) We decided to leave the scene with the campfire for Tuesday. The last scene we filmed was a confetti popper going off and it falling down gently with a white fence in the background. This is probably my favorite scene from the whole music video. We then cleaned up the confetti and Mariapaula’s house. I didn’t think the scenes we took were that bad; although, we were a bit rushed, Mariapaula was tired from filming all day and I felt she wanted us to leave. Overall, Filipino out commercial took about an hour or two. We got into class today after getting all the clips onto the computer and we’re very surprised. The footage was extremely grainy and bad quality, I wasn’t happy with any of the scenes. We will be filming again on Tuesday and not on the school camera but with our phones. Hopefully things end up better this time around.