We Are Finally Filming
Today was our first filming day for our commercial. The initial plan for our group was to film outside of our classroom. Since there were people passing by we decided to go to our backup plan which was the senior patio. The senior patio was empty so it was perfect to film in. I was the camera man for the commercial film. My experience with filming was pretty good although it was many retakes. The hardest part of filming was to make sure there was no background noise. The first shot I filmed was a POV shot of the main actor with his phone. I had to retake the POV shot many times since the actor messed up. One way he would mess up was by not playing the music or not putting sound cancelation on. The next shot was a shot of me following the actor while he was walking. The next shot was a high angle shot. I had to find a high place to film from and there was a place just for that. I went up the stairs and when I finished the shot we reviewed and realized it was too high. I ended up ju...