An amazing day of recording and teamwork

    Originally, I thought that it was going to be raining all day due to the giant raincloud hovering over us for majority of the day, but when my group and I walked out, the weather was perfect for us too film. Clear skies, humid and cool breeze, perfect conditions for filming a commercial.

    My job was to supervise and assist the actors in our commercial on what they have to do and what shots that had to be taken. I also assisted Hadar on recording some shots that needed some advanced camera movement. First, we recorded Alex and Jorge (the runners) stretching and preparing for the race, this was the establishing shot. We then get a close up of both racers, getting into their ready positions and looking competitively at each other.

    We also got a close up shot of both actor's shoes, so while in post we can add details about the shoes they are wearing. We are going have to also blur out the Adidas logo on Alex shoes since if this was a real commercial that would be broadcasted, we could be sued for defamation or have a Seize and Desist order from Adidas.

    We then had both racers to run while we take a Wide-Shot, panning the camera towards the runners as they passed by the camera. We taken the shot with extreme care due to us having to add certain effects in post, as that is a reason why some actions were made by the actor were planned out and spaced away from one another.

    We also did mock and improv shots of the interview as reference for the real recording. We had Hadar and Jorge on a medium long shot as Alex would be far back complaining and crying in the center of the shot. The shots were really rough and pretty funny at times but we managed to pull through and got a proper rough recoding.

    I had an idea to do some shots in slow motion, giving more depth to the commercial. I recorded Alex and Jorge running in slow motion and when they make it to the end of the race where the racer has to touch Hadar's hand first to win. Alex even made his performance more believable by acting like he tripped and fell, which it was too believable and we all thought he got hurt.

    After about an hour of recording, we decided to pack our things, drink water and relax for a bit. We did a little bit of small talk about the project and other assignments and we spent some time re-watching some shots and choosing which ones we like the most. we still have a long way to go until we are fully done but we have high hopes on what the final product could look like. We now have to wait until Monday for us to continue recording and I'm prepared to continue working.

Shots we have to reshoot/create:

• Close-Up Shot of runner's feet taking off.
• Close-Up of the runner's feet running.
• The interview scene.
• Wide-Establishing Shot of Jorge (winner) cheering and Alex (loser) "crying."
• Wide Shot of runners running past the camera.