Video Shooting Preparation and Cordination - Part 1

Thankfully I have secured the location for video shooting and the schedule for the actor and actresses to come together during study break to record the videos. I'm fortunate enough to borrow GoPro camera from friends to record the video. In this post, I will document down the process and the learning I've got from this video shooting.

#1: Location Scouting and Makeover Plans
To find a strategic location where I can use 3 rooms in the same house to tell the story, I need to find a house that have most of my friend staying, and I can get permission to use those location easily. There's one student house in PJS9 rented by most of my classmates, 3 of them. And I got permission to use all the 3 rooms.

** Challenge: Most of my character in the story are girls. Very different character of girls. Out of the 3 rooms I can use, 2 are guys room. Only one is girl's room. I need to think of ideas to furnish one more room to a more girly one. The only girl's room available, which is Estee's room, has gave me great inspiration to decorate another girl's room.

To re-make the other girl's room, I think of using the photos put on the wall to hint user the relationship of these housemates without much conversation or voice over required.

From here, I contacted my other actresses to collect idea of props we can get from them. Below are some of the images the actress sent to me while we discuss about the props:

A girl's room similar to my story character - anime fans

Another actress' room

Trophies - The gold that can hint user to the missing palette

**Guy's Room Makeover Plan
Get props from actresses - items like big soft toy, dresses, makeup palettes, bags, beauty magazines... etc