Filming Blog

     Today, in class, my group, consisting of myself, Roscoe W., Zeke M., and Elijah S. filmed part of our Nike shoe commercial.  I was in charge of getting all of our equipment for filming. I had to fill out the checkout sheet and get the equipment. I checked out a camera, camera bag, tripod, tripod bag and filming pass. I bought an SD card so I didn't check one out. Once I got all our materials we headed out to our first location. For our first clip we started on the running track at our school. We took several clips using different actors and shoes so we could decide which one was the best when we edit. Most of the footage was taken using the school camera but I took a few shots on my cell phone because the lighting on the camera was very dark. Our actors for the scene were Zeke M. and Elijah S. wearing all black Tanjin Nike sneakers and Nike Air Max 270 sneakers.
   
     Roscoe and I did the filming. We used the tripod when the actors were running to film a pan. When we filmed the close up we took a hand held shot close to the ground. The two shots taken at the track will be used as the first part of our commercial. We will first show the running scene, then insert the close-up of the shoe, then the next shot will begin. Our next filming location was at the main stairs in our school. In this shot, I was an actor. My job was to show a rival shoe company so we could promote Nike shoes. I wore all white vans so that when the other actor, Zeke entered the shot with his brightly colored Nike shoes they would be the main focus that draws the audience's eyes to the shoes. This scene, unlike the scene before, shows how Nike shoes are fashionable. While the scene before shows how the shoes are useful for athletics and exercise.
   
      For our last scene we will be using Nike slides to show how Nike Shoes provide comfort. This variety of uses for the shoes helps make the commercial appeal to all audiences. We didn't have time to film this shot so we are planning to film in class on Monday. Once we finished filming we went back to the classroom to 'dump' our footage. Elijah checked out a SD card reader to put our footage onto the computer. I created a new file then I transferred all of the footage. After the footage was transferred and saved I returned the SD card reader and all of the equipment. I moved the paper that I filled out when I checked out the materials to the returned folder for my period. Overall, Our filming went very smoothly and we accomplished almost everything we wanted to.