Music Video filming

           This weekend my group and I filmed  this weekend for our music video for the song Location by Khalid. My group and I met up at  my group-mate Nadia‘s house. We did this so that we could shot some of the scenes we wanted to in the car and everyone would be together for those scenes.  So her mom drove us to the beach and we filmed on the way.  Once we got to the beach, we had her mom drop us off at the most scenic location. We wanted to film the scenes we had in mind on the beach first, so we chose the best area to enter the beach based on lighting and what was around that location.  We were mostly specific on this because we didn’t want anything in the shot that we didn’t plan to be in the shot, like extra buildings or too many people. So we found an entrance that net our needs and got out of the car. We had to have her mom wait a little because we had a scene to film of someone stepping out of the car. Once we finished we took our things and chose a spot to film our first beach scenes.
             Shooting on the beach wasn’t too difficult, But we did face some difficulties. The night before I checked the weather and saw that it would be sunny so my group and I knew that we wouldn’t have to worry about weather. But the wind was very crazy and sand was blowing everywhere so we had to wait out the really bad gusts and avoid the sand. Other than that we didn’t really face any other difficulties. My main job was to act in the music video. I played the main character in the scenes while my group mates played my friends. So I mainly had to work and discuss with everyone what the next scenes were and act accordingly. I was very happy doing this and my group and I worked really well on how the scenes were shot and what to do in them. We had a picture of our storyboard which was really helpful so that we could remember our initial ideas for a scene and either do the same thing or something different. But we mainly stuck to our initial ideas and kinda cane up with perfected versions.
            We then shot our boardwalk scenes. Shooting these scenes were the most difficult, this was because at the time we were filming the beach was very crowded and we didn’t want too many extras in our shots. We also wanted to avoid any problems with civilians because most people don’t want to be filmed and require consent. So making sure that not too many people were in our shots on a busy boardwalk was quite difficult. But we found a way around this by spacing out our scenes or going to more quiet sidewalks. During this time I searched for clear spots and acted in each scene. I wouldn’t say that I directed the music video because my group and I all put in ideas and input. But my main job was to deliver a believable and accurate performance. I didn’t have difficulty with this because I have acted before and my group mates gave me clear and concise notes. But filming overall was smooth and went very well, and my group and I are very happy with the progress.