Filming Blog: Filming Half the Scenes

In this filming day, I've filmed half of the scenes as illustrated in my storyboard. So I was able to get 30 seconds of footage done. Each scene lasted five seconds, so I was able to get six scenes done. Every two scenes are correlated with each other.

For the first scene, it was for when the character is sleeping peacefully. To prep for this scene, I had to clear my bed of extra pillow and blankets. I then narrowed down the props for the sleeping scene: my purple baroque pattern pillow and yellow blanket. Since I was the only actress to be in the music video, I had to get my brother to film for me. Before we started even filming, I had to photograph the composition that I wanted to achieve, then I would show my brother what the composition would look like, so he could replicate the shot when filming. For example, I photographed him for the sleeping scene and he would then replicate the composition when filming. For the second scene, the character was still in bed; however, she was now crying in this scene. This required another prop other than the blanket and pillow: tissues. I wanted to illustrate an exaggerated misery of the character, so I used an obnoxious amount of tissues for this scene. My brother and I crumpled tissue paper and put it all over the bed to show that the character was crying for a long time. My brother filmed me 'crying' for this shot. The scenes took about nine takes to perfect, as I was directing my brother on how to compose the shot to the best of his ability. Each scee was 5 seconds.

For the third and fourth scene, it comprised of the bacon and eggs forming a smiley face, then a sad face. For this scene, this time I was the one filming it in an aerial shot, and had my brother form the sad face with the bacon. I first fried the eggs and bacon individually. I then insert the eggs and bacon back in the pan (stove not on). I adjusted the exposure of the camera to limit any grain in the video. Then, I filmed in an aerial shot, while my brother adjusted the bacon to make a sad face for ten seconds, so there were no cuts for the third and fourth scene. This took a perfect one take. 

To conclude the filming day, I filmed the fifth and sixth scenes. These scenes comprised of the character putting on mascara in the bathroom. For the fifth scene, before even filming the actual take, I have my brother pose in front of the mirror and I filmed how I  particularly how I wanted the the camera movement to conduct (I wanted him to do a tilt). In this scene, my brother started to film from the sink and tilt up towards the mirror so my face could be seen. I made sure to have a calm demeanor when acting. In the sixth scene, this was the crying scene and the character face had mascara running down her cheeks. To prep for my look, I smeared mascara from my eyes to my cheeks and used a wet paper towel to smudge it even more. I then put vaseline under my eyes to look like there was tear on my face. To finish off the look, I used tissue to complete the crying look. My brother repeats the same camera movement and I acted out my crying.