Filming for my Crocs Commercial

    On Sunday November 1st I filmed my Crocs commercial. The person I originally wanted to film with was unable to come over and film so I just filmed with my mom instead. During this process I directed the filming. I decided the positions my mother and I would stand in, and the dialogue we would use in the commercial. Before filming I cleared the yard of any signs that would get in the way of my video. I also played around with locations for the camera to sit to record. I gathered the football and soccer ball, the shoe box and crocs, and set up the camera in the front yard. I decided to film in the front yard of my house because I wanted to use the grass to play with the balls. This was the first option out of the two options I had for filming stated in my planning. The park would have been nice to film at as well but my front yard proved it self to be way more efficient. I filmed when the sun was out so there would be good natural lighting but also when it was not too busy so there wouldn't be any extra noise from passing cars or walking individuals. I decided to cut out the last slide of dialogue from my story board because I found it to be unnecessary. The recording for the commercial was not as difficult as I first thought it would be because I only had me and my mother available to film. I do not have a tripod so I propped my phone up against a candle to capture me and my mother. For the close up angles and shots we took turns with filming each other. With the angles of the camera I needed to make sure the sun did not cast shadows that would make my video appear too dark because it was filmed in the afternoon. We did have to talk much during the filming to make sure the microphone caught our words clearly because the camera was a good distance away. Crocs commercials usually don't use much dialogue so I omitted that from my final video. The filming process of the video took about 30 minutes in total, my mother is very easy to work with so I only had to re film the parts of my commercial about twice sometimes three times to find the perfect clip.