Production blog: The big set up

After a big meeting that me and my group mates had within our group. We made up our day of when we were going to start recording. We all made time by cutting something we would do on Saturday to meet up to start the filming for this music video. I'm leaving early at the school where I am a teacher assistant at to go to the area where we are going to record. During the meeting that we had we finalized the areas that we were going to record. We made up our minds and we are to record at the beach with a pier nearby and at a local park that we know that many people don't go to. This is so we don't disturb anyone while we are filming and don't cause a disturbance to anyone. As we don't have any real filming equipment at this moment to properly record, we are going to use our phones at this moment to record. We going to record with the built-in program on our phones called camera. If we don't like how the recordings come out then we might rent out a proper camera that has the qualities we need for the music video. Also just in case we need it I have a personal lighting rig that we can use during the music video so the lighting in the video doesn't come out with lots of shadows. We took inspiration from the boy band's music videos. In them, we saw that there's consistent lighting no matter the shot they were all in proper lighting. As we are going to set up on Saturday to start recording we are planning on also using the natural lighting of the sun to create a natural look on set. We also going to come up with the final version of the outfit we going to use for the music video. As we all have some ideas of what we want to wear. I'm planning on mixing all the ideas and using aspects of each idea into one. I think filming is going to be the easy part of this whole process. I feel that editing the music video is going to tough part of the process since we are trying to replicate an old aesthetic. But overall I am excited to start the recording process to get the ideas we have out and done.




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