Production Blog: Editing and Preparing for Last Film Day

     The due date of our music video was growing near, and we still had yet to finish filming. The last scenes needed to get done were the ones that we needed their dad to be on duty for. Filming needed to be urgently completed, but there was a major problem. I was going to be out of town on the only day that their dad was working before the due date. I tried my hardest to get out of leaving town, but even if I had stayed, my parents would not be here so I would be by myself the entire time, meaning no transportation.

    I really wanted to be there to film because I had so many ideas of how it should be filmed and shot that I could only be made reality by being there in person and filming it myself. During the time of figuring all this out, I was in class with Riley, so we devised a plan. I suggested that they go film even though I would not be there, and I would contribute by planning out each scene in writing and sending it to Riley to film without me. This would work because I myself am not in the music video, which now I am so glad I decided. 

    To begin this plan, I started by just talking it out with Riley. Riley seemed very unconfident, saying "There's no way I can do this" and just things along the lines of needing me there. This made me realize I would have to do way more than just write down in words what she needed to do, and that I needed to make this work because it was our last chance. So, I used my notes app to draw pictures of how each scene should look, including the angles, props, characters, and scenery/location. I was trying so hard to explain each scene to her while we had the opportunity to be in person, but Riley seemed a bit out of it. Because of this, I came up with another strategy. I took her phone and had her and our friend Corey act out the scenes in class while I filmed them to show her how I wanted them to look. This was highly effective, so I did this with a few scenes and she ended up saying she understood.

    It seemed like she was getting more confident and was feeling like she would be able to carry out my vision. I went back to my computer on my Word document and finished typing up the scene-by-scene descriptions including the number of seconds and lyrics the scenes would be. For example, "...start from the same angle as scene 1, 1.8 seconds “burn burn burn burn," like at the shoulders so medium close up from behind, then spin around Marissa and end with it facing her, make sure you can see the firefighters and truck (look at drawing I sent you)..." and other descriptors.

    I was able to get it done by the end of the period and get it sent over to Riley to use when they filmed. After we left class, we met up with Mariss and Mackena and told them what we had done. We set a time to FaceTime to go over the Word document plan, explain it, and possibly tweak it if needed.





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