Preliminary Task 2: Filming Blog

Characters

Gavin Bogdanchik (Main Character), Sam Tobin (Running Trainer), Gabe Mayle (Baseball Coach), Justin Henry (Weight-Lifting Trainer)

Role

I was the main character in the role starring as the athlete that was getting trained by all the trainers in the film. My role is important because without me in the film there will be no main character and nobody to train so the film will have no purpose. I also made up the story and what the video was going to be. I also picked some of the shots and camera angles to do in some of the scenes. Unfortunately, I could not film because I had to be in every scene of the film.

Filming Process

Our group’s point of making this video was to be in depth and be most realistic as possible. The goal of the video was to show the struggle of an athlete from 3 different aspects of training to perfecting the 3 aspects later on in the video after changing his work ethic and training harder through the video. For filming, we filmed in a house and outside the house for all the scenes in the film. We filmed the weight lifting scene in the garage, we filmed the baseball scene in a batting cage behind the house, we filmed the running scene on the street in front of the house. Aside from me playing the main role Gabe, Sam, and Justin played as the trainers, when deals with the aspect of our roles. Our group filmed on two separate dates, being able to complete the filming entirely. We found the best locations to film our video allowing for our shots to be filmed to the best of our ability and ambition.

Changes

Right from the start of our filming, shots which our group originally drew up we knew had to be changed to better suit the feel and intentions we wished for the scene to have. Our group often shot a scene from multiple different shot types angles, to which allowed us to be able to narrow downs which ones in fact worked best for the scene which was being filmed. The extra research on shot types which we took part in really allowed for us to see the scene at its full potential. Shots ranging from our opening scene through training have been changed, giving the video a more intense and hard work feel to it which was the purpose of the video. We also changed the ending instead of all of us in the last scene we changed it to me, Justin, and Sam as I get committed to a college since Gabe could not make it on the last day of filming.