Filming Blog for Music Video

                                                          Filming Blog for Music Video                                    

      This is my filming blog which highlights the important parts about my filming! First of all, the music video my group and I were making is on the song, "Hey There Delilah". My group is just me Elijah and Zeke. The storyboard we made directly recreates what our video would most likely look like. The setting for the storyboard was at a park in New York City. The time it would be at is at  nighttime. Of course we couldn't fly to New York City on such short notice, so we decided to film at Young Circle in Hollywood, FL. The park is rather big and represents what a park in New York City would be. The date we decided to film was on November 23, 2019. The time we started filming at was around 8:25 pm.
      By the time I arrived there it was dark, which was according to plan. Zeke and Elijah were there, along with a few other old friends to help out with the filming. We needed a leading role for a female and a male, which was supported by a volunteer. The camera was not charged so we had to film off of Elijah's iPhone 7 Plus. We then followed along with the storyboard starting off with the man and his guitar by himself in the shot. We took it with Zeke sitting on the edge of the fountain. The next one was the lady walking down some sort of path. Then, one of the volunteers had to walk along a path that went up to a big open area with a Christmas tree to end off the shot. The next scene in the storyboard was with the man in the guitar perched up in a tree with the girl walking past the tree not noticing him. We found a low hanging tree branch and decided that would be a good area to film.
      Once this scene was filmed, I had to leave early at this part.
However the filming went on good without any special problems or events (experiences taken from Zeke and Elijah). Now for the props, clothing, lighting and other necessities. The props we only needed was the guitar, meant for Zeke to pretend play and play along with the song. We had the song playing on a phone to help Zeke mouth the words for the song. For the clothes, they were all casual clothes meant to represent a simple and easy to follow kind of theme. The lighting was dark and bright depending on the shots. For example walking up the path in the second scene was met first with dark and then light coming from the Christmas tree. Sometimes the lighting was too dark so we had to improvise and use it to the best of our abilities. The acting was great since Zeke represented the guitar player really well and the volunteer was following along with the skit. The filming stage was a really straightforward step we took in order to complete our music video.