Filming Blog for Music Video- Bridge Shots

We had split our project into two different groups of filming- bridge shot and railroad shots, which can be completed on different days. Today, my group filmed our bridge shots- scenes 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 12. We were using a bridge near one of our group member's houses, in a low-traveled suburban area. I was filming my partner, who is the actor for this project. The plan was just to use a phone camera rather than anything notably fancy. We were planning on going sequentially down the list of scenes to film and getting them done early, since both of us had engagements later today, but when we were planning to film, there was sudden rain and thunder which delayed our plans. We had to wait about 20 minutes, and then half an hour of going to the location we meant to film in. Once we were there, we reviewed our scenes and our options for filming them, then set it up. We went through our first two scenes, 4 and 6. For scene 4 I stood on the road and on a diagonal filmed the necessary actions for the scene, and for scene 6 I followed our actor down a road as he walked. After reviewing the footage, I decided that scene 6 needed to be reshot from a further distance and we did the filming again. After that, we moved further down the list to scenes 7 and 9. Scene 7 was captured quickly and easily- I followed our actor as a continuation of shot 6, and then used an eye level shot where I crouched as he sat down to simulate a mirrored movement. Scene 9 was slightly more difficult, as it involved different scenes crosscutting, but in the end that actually only dictated that we needed two short clips of the actor sitting on a guardrail, which I captured from a similar angle as scene 4. Finally, with Scenes 11, I stood in place and only slightly zoomed in, as the actor walked up the road and turned around, and for Scene 12, I pivoted around our actor standing on the bridge to capture clips of half of our crosscuts for that scene. Tomorrow we're planning on filming the other half of the scenes which must be done, and fixing anything that needs to be fixed.



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