We didn't Film for our music video :(

Our filming process should be a lot smoother . This time our storyboard is more accurate for every shot. Last time we had many mistakes when beginning to film . We forgot materials , messed up our storyboard and didn't listen when editing . Our filming process was quite hectic but we eventually figured it out . This time we will be prepared before actually filming . We are buying the props before and then storing them inside my car to make sure we have them the day of filming  . I am also going to get my car cleaned while also buying an aux cord .  The buying of the cord will allow us to listen to the music which well react to the music by dancing. We should be well prepared when we began filming . However we decided not to film this weekend . Instead we decided to film the Saturday during our thanksgiving which gives us extra time to film .
We will check out camera the Tuesday before Thanksgiving .  Thanksgiving begins on Wednesday and we'll be filming on Saturday . This was the best choice for the whole group because most of us have jobs and other homework. On Saturday we plan to meet up at galleria mall . This mall is close to the beach which gives us about a 5 minute  drive because we'll probably film about 6 seconds of the drive to create an establishing shot of Fort Lauderdale . We're excited to have a smooth filming process because our last one didn't go as planned . After we leave the mall we will go to the beach and create a miniature parties with our friends to show us having fun at the beach . The Storyboard is way more reliable .
We are excited to film on Saturday and create our production the following week.This filming process should go very smooth. Being that we decided to film this Saturday and not the previous Saturday may have shorten our time a bit . However we still have 3 full class periods of editing plus 2 extra if we come to this class during our study hall . We have fully prepared for this weekend . We have all asked our parents , bought our selected materials , and reviewed and revised our storyboard. It should only take us about 3 hours to film our music videos . However we will shoot extra shots if we have any mishaps. All in all our filming process should go as planned and have every aspect of our storyboard on it.

Storyboard Blog for music video

1. 1. Our customs will be casual everyday clothing. However, the lightening during this time period will be bright being that it’s the peak of the day. During all our scenes we won't wear makeup. Although we will use props such as our phone to play the music.  we will use a wide shot being that we want the mall scenery to be seen. Angles during this shot is a high angle to emphasize us making memories together. We probably a use a pan shot to create us in like an establishing shot of our scene. 

2. 2. They’re no custom change and the same lightening will be used. During this shot we will create a high shot because were dancing to the music. The dancing will be our acting. The setting of this will still be in the parking lot of galleria mall. 

3. 3. We are still in the casual clothing. We will use a point of view shot and it will be hand held being that I am encouraging them to come to the mall. We won't have any props during this scene. The setting will be us walking into galleria mall. This will also have a tracking shot because theyre walking up. 

4. 4. In this scene, our costume will be casual clothing. Lighting will be bright as this scene will be shot during the day. We will be walking towards the mall entrance so our backs will be turned. We will not be wearing makeup as in this scene our faces are not shown. There are no props in this scene. The setting will be us walking from the parking lot towards the mall entrance door. For this scene we will be using tracking shot and wide shot. 

5. 5.For this scene, there is no costume change. Lighting will be dim since we are inside the mall. Our acting, is us dancing as we’re looking through the store. There is no makeup used in this scene. Props are clothing in the store. Setting will be inside a store. We will be using medium shots, two people shot, and pan. 

6. 6. This scene has no costume change. Lighting will be dim. Our acting will be socializing amongst each other. We will not be using makeup in this scene. Our props will be shopping bags. Setting will be the escalators of the mall. We will use low angle. 

7. 7.In this scene, the costume will be casual, every day, clothing. We will be sitting in the car heading to the beach. The lighting in the scene will be natural daylight.  The scene will be taken on the tripod where the camera is stationary. The actors will be singing along and enjoying the featured song in the music video. No make-up will be used in this scene. 

8.  8.In this scene, the costume will still be casual everyday clothing. We will still be in the car driving to the beach. The movement of this scene will be a tracking shot of the City of Fort Lauderdale outside of the car window. There will be no acting in this scene. Because the actors will still be in the car there will be no props as well. The actors will also wear no make-up.  

9.  9.For this scene, the friends arrive at the beach. An establishing shot will be taken to show the setting. The actors are not shown in this scene. There will be no make-up used on the actors.  This will be our establishing shot for the beach.

10. 10.This scene is going to have us going into the bathroom or fitting rooms with our regular clothes and then leave the fitting room with beach clothes on. This shows that we are changing to go chill at the beach. This goes correspondingly with the vibes we want for our video. We won’t be acting in this shot and will use a wide shot. 

11. 11. In this scene we will be seen having fun at the beach. We won’t have any sound in this film except the song. We will make some of the lyrics concerning the beach match up to us at the beach. The props we will have are a beach towel, speaker, beach umbrella, cups, coolers, and food. We will have on the beach attire and just be seen having fun; laughter, smiling, and dancing included. This portrays the chill vibe of the song that we want to capture and we will use a wide shot. 

12. 12. In this shot we will be seen parting ways. After a long day of fun and creating memories with each other by just chilling with each other. We will be putting away the same props from last time. We will have the music fading out as we are leaving. This hints at the song ending and the day will be over. The sun should be setting around that time as well. We will use a wide shot for this. 

planning for sky walker music video

My group mates and I chose three different locations to film at. Our music video begins at galleria which is a shopping mall close by. We'll start in the parking lot blasting Skywalker by Miguel, but not very loud because we don’t want to disturb any mall securities. We will then transition to inside the mail to buying beach wear which is our attire for the beach. After purchasing our beach wear, we will transition to the beach to have a little party amongst each other. However, we will ask permission from the store we go to film. If it rains or galleria ask us to leave, we will try a different mall and if it rains, we’ll just choose another day to do the beach scene. 

For our health and safety, we will make sure to wear seat belts while driving. We will do this because there are many consequences of driving without a seatbelt such as getting in an accident and flying through the windshield and getting a ticket. We will also look both ways before crossing any streets to avoid getting hit by a car and we will also make sure the driver will not text and drive. We will also not leave our belongings in the car because robbers would be able to see that and they might try to break into the car in order to get the items. These safety precautions will make sure to keep us safe during our filming process. 

We will have a good number of props. Our props will vary during our mall scenes we will have vary shopping bags filled with beach clothing to prepare us for our transition to the beach. At the beach we will have numerous of props to create the scene of having a party. Some of these props will include cups, a beach umbrella, beach towel, cooler and a speaker. Each group memeber would have to provide at least one prop. 

The costumes that we will wear are casual clothes. We are going to wear causal clothes in order to convey the chill vibes theme that we have throughout our video. We want to make sure that we don’t wear anything inappropriate as well, which is why we will make sure to keep the clothes we wear appropriate for school. We are going to switch clothes into our beach clothes for the beach. We are going to make sure that our beach clothes are not showing too much skin. For the girls, if they have a two-piece, they are going to wear something over that to cover it up. For me I will wear a t-shirt and some swimming trunks in order to convey the beach theme and be appropriate. These costumes are the most efficient way to keep our theme and to keep it school appropriate. 

We have a set schedule for the rest of our filming process. Today and our next class we have to finish our planning and story boarding process. Our next class isn't tomorrow because our days switch back and forth between our classes .Then we have to create a filming blog on whether we decide to film this weekend or not.  Which we decided to film on 11/30 during the thanksgiving break. This gives us 3 class periods to edit because our music video is due 12/09 . The created schedule gives us enough time to finish filming , editing and creating our music video before the due date . 

Sky Walker Music Video Research Blog

We submitted our commercial, finalized all edits and completed our creative critical research  . Somethings in the commercial that we are improving when filming our music video is story boarding accurately . During the commercial our storyboard didn't work out for us being that we had to long of a shot in a storyboard . This time we know that we will storyboard clearly so during filming we wont have have to re-think the whole production . Also timing and being prepared is very important in creating our production being that last time we almost missed our due date because we lacked materials. My group mates and I have already started planning our location and materials list.

The song that we are using is Sky Walker by Miguel. We are using this song because this is a very chill song that you can vibe to and that is what we were looking for. We can all relate to this song and we love the energy that it gives off. We like the chillness and we believe that we can really connect with this song. Not only can we connect with this song, but we also have a good story to go with the song. We instantly had ideas when we heard this song and that made us want to do this song even more. We all agree that this song is the best choice for us,

1. Costume: Casual clothing, party attire, formal attire ,beach attire to fit all our locations 

2. Lighting: Dim, low lighting. high lighting , sunny 

3. Acting: Dancing, conversations, choreography

4. Makeup :a lot of women had on makeup

5. Props: Glasses, cash, shopping bag ,, coolers, beach umbrella 

6. Setting: Car, beach, house , mall

R&B songs usually carry many conventions , However we plan on challenging some. Some conventions are different Sounds such as Score, ambient sound, and no sound. Another convention is the editing of the music video such as Flash pan, cutaway, dissolve, fade in, shot/reverse shot, eye-line match, and reaction shot. One more convention is the Camera angles/shots movements which could vary from long shot, medium long shot, close up, two shot, aerial shot, over-the-shoulder shot, tracking shot, and hand held. When filming our music video we plan to continue with the convention with the camera angles . However we plan on creating a smoother music video and challenging the normal R&B conventions. 

Final filming blog

Creating the commercial was an awesome task with some difficulties . It was awesome because it was something I have never done before . This was my first time creating my own film other than using my phone video recorder . I have learned many skills during the process of editing , filming and finishing the commercial . In the beginning my journey filming was quiet hectic . I didn’t understand how filming each shot in 6 seconds was such a hard job . The first day my group mates and i filmed we didn’t have any of the materials . Even-though we had two days to film one of the days had already wasted . Another part of our journey was critiquing the Story board . Our story board was much harder to complete then we thought this made us here disagreements on the new story board . 

However we knew that our idea of pure life water bringing life to Fort Lauderdale High was still in tact . Our next filming day i came up with the idea of sharing a water around school . This filming process took our whole other filming day which gave me minimal time to drop the raw footage to the computer .A main reason it took so long was because i filmed way more shots then needed . This  made me grateful that i had purchased my own SD card . The purchase of my own SD card gave me the ability to drop my footage the next day . After finishing the filming of all raw footage the next day was editing. Editing took a longer time because the first day the computers weren’t working .Not only was they not working but pinnacle studios weren’t downloaded on them . Our timing was already pushed back due to the extra time we took filming because i lacked being prepared. The delay of pinnacle studios pushed back our due date by a few days because our lack of ability to edit . 

The editing process came next as we finished filming and the computer was up and running . The editing process took kind of long because i wasn’t use to using such features to edit . Even -though our teach had taught us how to use pinnacle studios it was still hard to learn all the roads of it . The first shot edited was our establishing shot of our school. This is the basis of the whole commercial being that pure life water gives life to FLHS. The idea was finally coming through as i completed the editing process. The film stared my group mates , class members and a teacher . This was to present the idea of sharing a water around FLHS. Soon enough we completed our idea into the commercial . It included all aspects that we wanted to capture and i even added ambient sound of a school to the background of the commercial.