Preparation Blog: Things Keep Getting in our Way!

 We haven't started filming our commercial yet. There was a planned lacrosse practice on Wednesday 10/5, so we had the chance to film but I went to a concert instead of going to practice. My group-mate Noura was planning on going to practice and talking to our actors making sure they know the plan, as well as assessing the setting and area we will film. She could do this alone, however practice was cancelled at the usual location. The practice was moved to a public park instead. This meant that she couldn't assess the exact areas where we will film on Saturday when we do. She could however talk to our actors. Our actors are Aniyah and Jessica, two captains of our lacrosse team who are very capable of showing off their scoring skills for our commercial. As I mentioned, I went to a concert instead of practice because it was my friends birthday and she got tickets. We saw a band called Peach Pit. The concert put us a little behind on our filming schedule but it was worth it. We're also not letting this setback let us fall behind too much, we will film as soon as we can. We need to film quickly and all in one day. This is important so the conditions of the day are exactly the same for continuity reasons, these are things like how sunny, cloudy, or rainy it is outside. These are big factors to consider because we are in Florida and the weather changes very frequently. Another reason we need to get it done quickly is because we need to make sure we have sufficient time to edit it. The editing might be complicated because of the result we want to achieve. Noura and I haven't discussed how we are going to split the work for editing the video yet. We also don't know what software we are going to use to edit it, we need to find one that is free and lets us do everything we require. Both of those are problems we can resolve after we have filmed. We plan to film on Saturday, 10/8. 



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