Filming

      Today in class we started filming our commercial. Once we got our equipment we headed out to begin. Before we started recording incompletely, one of my group members, Tim, had to change into his costume. My team: Sean, Kyle, and Tim all wore athletic wear to simulate a real track meet. I was the coach, so i wore sunglasses, a baseball cap, and a jacket. When we went out to the track to record, the first spot we were thinking were already taken by other groups. There were also people for PE running the track so we had to time our takes accordingly. When we finally found a spot we started recording. For all the scenes where the coach wasn't involved, I was the camera man. The first scene we shot was the opening scene. 

      I got on my knees to record a low angle of Sean's legs, I slowly stood up to reveal the rest of the track. We also tried shooting the shot using zoom and placing the camera on the tripod. We haven't decided which take we like more at this point. The next shot we attempted to get was where the coach (me) hand Sean the Gatorade and his medal. We took a few takes of this with different angles. It was also around this time that the first group of people finished running the track. This allowed us to film more freely for a small amount of time. In this time we filmed the first part of the race scene, as well as Sean taking a gulp of the Gatorade. We approached each of these takes from different angles and with different movement. It took us a while to finish these scenes, it took around 25 minutes. 

      After we were happy with those takes me moved on. We filmed the final scene where the Gatorade is slammed on the ground. We took 2 takes of that and we were pretty confident. After that scene was over we had about 20 minutes until we had to go back in. We encountered a major issue however, our camera had very low battery and we had to film a very important scene. We needed to film that scene very quickly. We also had a long discussion about what angle we should record it at. Eventually we chose to pit the camera at the half way point of the race, and I would pan to track them. The difficult part was having it so Sean was able to be behind, and comeback last minute. It took a few tries to get a take we were happy with, but luckily we did. After that it was time for us to go in and dump our footage into a computer.