Production Blog - Backup Plan

During the filming of my music video, there were many interruptions and bumps. First of all, my group and I had planned to finish our film on the day we had went to Lili's house. However, Brianna and Hannah's mom would not let them leave the house, therefore we planned to go another day. We took many hours finding a day where we were all available. We thought we had planned a day, but something came up for one of us and so that day was cancelled. Then, each day we would ask each other if we were free. Brianna and Hannah had to go to sporting practices, Lili had plans with her mom, Aleiah had cheerleading practice, and I had family reunions. We were still anticipating to go to the mall for the missing clip. However, we thought to ourselves and realized it would be extremely hard with all of our schedules. Therefore, I came up with the idea to film right after school at an ice cream shop, Dairy Queen, right next to our school. The shot we needed was 6.7 seconds. On December 10 we were all available for about 50 minutes after school. On that account, 10 minutes before the bell rang to end classes that day, Brianna and I went to the restroom to change our clothing. Aleiah and Lili were already wearing their designated clothes under their hoodies. Brianna and I came back just in time before the bell rang and our jeans were a bit tight on us, but we kept them on for the video. We went walking to the Dairy Queen and on the way we got the idea to film a video on the grass because it looked majestic. First we decided to buy our ice creams and then we sat down at a nearby table. We filmed quickly since our ice cream was melting under the scorching sun. Then we walked to the green area filled with trees and tried different takes to see which one looked the best. We chose the one where we are running since it looks like our friend group in the video is "bonding". All in all, this was an amazing adventure and I had lots of fun filming on this day.



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