Good times, good lunch, and broken glass

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 Filming for this music video went perfectly opposite to the plan. The plan was big city look, and to be in Miami or Las Olas at worst, but this is NOT what happened. I picked up my friend, and my actor Eric and began driving to my planned location. Just up the street from his house, I saw an abandoned lot, with a house in shambles. Turns out, the property belonged to my friend's dad, and we went on there to start filming. We ended up getting a lot of filming done there, housing most of the first verse in that shell of a building. The debris and the destruction fit the vibe of the song and one of the conventions of the punk music video: disarray. After that, we walked to a local part to get a couple quick shots. Then, we embarked on a journey to find elevation. There's this one part of my storyboard where I planned to have my actor walking down the middle of an empty street, but we did an on the spot revision of that; We found an elevated area and actually had my actor walk over the camera, which must've looked really strange to oncoming traffic. Next, we found a dingy-looking brick wall which we shot a good amount of. For the chorus, I also changed up a little bit of what my storyboard said. Instead of jumping and headbanging in one spot, I had my actor jump over the camera before panning up to look at him upside down for a really cool shot. The rest of what I had to do was easy, but it couldn't be completed with my actor, as he had things to do. We wrapped up, grabbed lunch, and I brought him home. I still had a few shots left to take though. I needed to get a couple time lapses as well as a weird shot which could be done without m actor. Soon after, I made my way to Las Olas and Miami in order to get those. The last shot I needed, I utilized my brother, which may appear inconsistent, but his face never shows.





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