Filming for Music Video Project- Railroad Shots

 Today my group did the second part of our filming and reshot some of the scenes which we'd filmed yesterday. Today the bridge reshooting took nearly as long as all of the shots did yesterday, because today the bridge we were using was highly populated with vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and we could barely capture any coherent shots as we kept having to stop and let traffic pass. I was filming again and helped restructure and redo some shots so that it would better fit with previous shots we had taken, and shots we were planning on doing. After about forty-five minutes we had gotten all the bridge shots we needed, so we walked for about ten minutes over to the railroad tracks where we were planning on completing the second part of our film. This went considerably smoother, since there was no traffic to contend with. That being said, we did have to stop twice for trains which passed us by. We captured several different shots, in which I had to film from a distance, transition up to and down from the sun, and pivot around the actor as he walked, among other things. After we reviewed the footage we had just taken, we decided that most of it could be improved and had been done sloppily initially, so we brainstormed how we could make the shots we were taking flow better with the bridge shots they'd be crosscut with. After some experimenting, we had a new plan for some of the shots in place, which involved different framings and angles for most of the railroad shots, and after we filmed these scenes the railroad shots were done. We finally reviewed all of our footage and made several small changes to some small-scale shots, before filming an ambiguous close up on the actor's face. This shot was ambiguous because it could have been done anywhere, it simply needed to get done. After that, we were completely done, so I packed up and went home.



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