After getting home late last night, I knew I had to get in control and really start focusing on this project since I have just over a week until the due date. So, instead of waiting around more time, I got to work.
Preparations:
I woke up early this morning (around 7:30 A.M.) so my mom could help me film the second half before she has to head off to work. Thankfully, she works at home, so I didn't have a huge rush, but she did have a meeting at 9:00 A.M. so I couldn't be playing with my time.
Before I talk about my filming process today, I wanted to also add what I did as a pre-filming addition yesterday. Even though I did get home very late last night, I decided to brainstorm a bit and think of ideas and elements I specifically wanted to add into my filming for the next day.
This ended up helping me out a lot because I ended up needing a whole lot more time than I thought I would've needed. This brainstorming also helped me because I didn't have to worry about thinking of what I should do when I was filming since I knew what I wanted it and how and all I had to do, was film it and be done.
The whole video was over 3 minutes long without being sped up since I tried to cram as much information and details into it as possible. Technically, you could call it a mini-vlog I made so I could move on to the filming stage smoother and easier.
I do know that I already made my storyboard and I already planned out what I wanted these scenes to look like earlier. However, editing my storyboard and rethinking my ideas after I finished filming the first half of the project is a great way to keep my project feeling fresh, updated, and overall better.
Actually Filming:
The filming started out well, I just had to adjust myself to feel more comfortable and at ease in front of the camera. The first shot took me a while to do since I was still warming up to my phone and I had to show my mom what angle I wanted to use and how I wanted the scene or shot to look.
After grazing past the next few shots easily, I got to a section that was particularly hard compared to the rest of the shots. One where acting and good camera work really came into play.
As shown below, it was a shot where I walk into a bathroom, while the camera is focused on the reflection of me on the mirror while I wash my face and then take a few steps back. Although now when I look back at it I could've done it differently to do it better, I think I still managed to do a decent job and succeeded in making a sufficient scene.
After filming a couple more scenes and shots, I encountered a section I thought was very boring. Not in the sense of the plot or what you're actually seeing, but instead, I thought the shots and angles I was using weren't advanced enough and didn't look cool enough.
To fix this problem, I decided to make a change of focus shot where I changed the camera's focus from a phone to a backpack. To do this, I started with the phone where the girl in the video had just sent a text and she then dropped the phone on the couch. I then made the camera focus on the keyboard part of the phone which gave it a very cool effect.
By this time, it was already 9:00 A.M, so my mom could no longer help me. Thankfully, all I had left was this shot where all I had to do was lean my phone on the window at a certain angle and hope it stays there until I run back upstairs to pause the recording.
This shot was filmed from a window on the second floor of my house that looks down and out to the front of my house. The window also shows the walkway leading up to my door from the mailbox which gave me a very wide and long cool high-angle shot.
Thankfully, this window didn't have any mesh covering the view so I didn't have any trouble positioning my phone correctly to get a clear shot of the girl walking from the door to around the tree on the left of her.
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