Filming with festivities

 Today, December 6, my group began filming our music video. We forgot one of our props and were therefore only able to shoot half the music video. The other actress also could not film their scenes, even the ones that didn't require the specific prop. This is because if they filmed some scenes one day and the rest another day, the costumes would be different. We also could not film our opening scene as it requires both actresses'. I filmed everything and made sure to try and hold the camera as steady as I possibly could. Faith couldn't be in the shots today so she was a big help behind scenes. We were able to get a lot done because the media center was empty and we had no distractions. The first scene I directed was Janiya walking through the front doors into the media center. There was then a series of about 4 clips from her walking through the door to sitting at the desk. Each clip will have a jump cut transition between them. While the music video is meant to alternate between clips of both people, we could only work with one today. There was caution tape all over the media door which we had to remove to film then place back up. Our next shot was Janiya walking to her Christmas tree.The one afterwards she sat at the dining room table, then the shot pictured her opening the box of decorations. At this point the music video would cut to whatever Faith is doing at the moment, but we just went ahead with all of Janiya's scenes. We then shot the scene of Janiya easily packing up all of her Christmas decorations.The scene ends with both characters on Face Time with each other. In order to include Faiths side of Face Time in this scene, we recorded very close to her face. However, it was inevitable for some of her shirt not to show through. To solve this problem, Faith will be bringing the shirt back to school to wear again. Also, bring that the opening scene includes them both at the same time.