Filming the Music Video First Attempt

      I filmed portions of the music video on Saturday 11/23. Things did not go exactly according to plan and the end result was a bit of a mess. Like I stated before, I was planning to film the music video with my group at a friend's house (Mariapaula) who was not a part of the group. I had Emily pick me up at 11 am and carpool our way to Mariapaula's house.  When we arrived at her house, our third group member Angelo, unfortunately, said he couldn't make it. He told us that an emergency happened with one of his close friends and he would not be able to arrive. This was a shock to both me and Emily. This put us into a bit of a bind. Angelo was going to be one of our main actors. Because of this forlorn event, we had to improvise on the spot with what we had. 

     We decided early to film our scenes at night because of the original music video and lyrics referencing a bar at night. Since we got there well before sundown, we decided to help Mariapaula and her group with her music video. It took almost the whole time the sun was up for them to finish. Since Angelo was not able to make it, we decided to borrow a male from the other group to help us film our music video. However, when it was our turn to film, he had to leave for church. We needed two males for the music video. The characters in the music video are the man, the lover, and the guy in the sunglasses. We only had me, Emily, and Mariapaula left. We decided that Mariapaula can pull off a semi-convincing tough-guy act so we went with that. She dressed up in a hoodie, sunglasses, and pulled her hair over her head. 

          When we finally started filming, it wasn't dark outside yet. Because of this, we decided to film the inside scenes first. The first scene we filmed was a bathroom scene. I popped a confetti popper in Mariapaula's backyard. I shot it into a plastic bag so that we could carefully scatter it in the bathroom to not make that big of a mess. That plan failed, like many other things during that day, because the confetti popper blew a hole into the bag and made a mess all over her backyard floor. Anyways after the sun came down and darkness fell upon the Mariapaula household we finally filmed all of our shots. I was pretty happy with our takes, even though they were just a bit rushed. However, when we got into class and finally looked at our footage, it was horrible. There was a very bad grainy effect on all of the shots. It looked like it was recorded on a potato. We are returning to Mariapaula's house on Tuesday to reshoot, hopefully, we have a better time than Saturday.