Filming

  Coming to the day of filming we were already doubting our original plan and how it was going to play out.  We sort of got lazy and forgetful at the fact we had to film. So the morning of filming everyone came to school with literally nothing but a planned storyboard and a Halloween mask. Our red riding hood costume idea backfired, due to the fact that Amina could not find it. Thinking quick on our feet that day was our biggest accomplishment. We took one of the old cheerleading outfits from the dance room and dressed Amina up in that, so that part of our plan was the first minor thing we had to altar. Secondly, once we obtained the cheer uniform, we went to class and checked out our cameras, and began to bring our storyboard to life. We had Josh and Amelia as the "directors" of our film, while Amina and I did most of the acting with the help of a few extras. We did plan on shooting extra scenes just to be sure we were not short of the time limit we have for our project. But once we edit I feel as if it'll be perfect.
   The whole time we were filming, personally, I believe the process was going well. One thing we did good on was, giving a precise storyboard, although some things did change, the camera angles and different shots that we documented were present in the film.  More than one shot was taken of some scenes and in other scenes we felt comfortable enough to only do our scenes once. We thought it would take us a lot longer than it did to record our commercial, but we got it done in about a hour. Giving us time to dump our shots on to the computer to prepare for filming. We are really excited to edit our film on Monday we got great feedback from peers and teachers. Our biggest issue will be working with time and not against it. making sure that everything is edited properly while staying on a tight schedule. Joshua is surprisingly really good with the camera and the whole tech aspect of the project so he is definitely our strongest link right now. Also we strongly believe we have a creative idea and now we have to execute.
   Lastly filming was a total success, although there were a few things we could have done differently. For example our communication and our actual willingness to do the commercial could have been better. We were all kind of lazy and didn't realize that this was our only shot at passing AICE media. One thing I found that worked to our advantage was actually thinking on our toes, we came up with some great ideas while shooting the middle of some of our scenes. We also didn't disagree or argue we kind of just heard everyone's ideas and put them together into a cohesive piece of work. Which I feel like that's what made us such a good group. All in all we have a great project prepared for Cambridge and for our teachers to see. The only thing holding not only a few of my group members back but others as well is keeping up with blogs. Sometimes they can be a challenge to keep up with. And we have to also work on/ practice more on our angles, shots, etc...