Filming Fun

Jade, Siena, Ben, and I did not plan on filming that first day. I finished the storyboard and took a picture of it on the second day of storyboarding. Siena made the blog and sent it to all of us to publish. After publishing the blog, we were ready to start filming early. Ben was the one who took it upon himself to film and direct. So he was not in the videos. Although, we planned for him to voice over in the commercial. We ended up just filming right outside our classroom in the hallway. While filming, we didn’t follow the storyboard completely. For specific shots, we were arguing how to film them. But we quickly came to a conclusion. For the first shot, I walked and my backpack fell to the floor with folders and notebooks falling out. The shot wasn’t looking that good, so we took another shot of me just dropping the backpack. The next shot was of Jade and Siena walking next to me and making fun of me with my broken backpacks. The camera followed them and at the end of the shot, I looked up at the Jansport backpacks. This is where I got the idea to get a Jansport backpacks. The shot after was just me using a Jansport backpack, instead of the broken one. The end then showed me walking up to Siena and Jade, and all three of us wearing Jansport backpacks. Then, the Jansport logo slowly faded in. Filming was a very fun process!



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