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      Today was our second day of filming. It was also our first complete day of filming, too. We were able to complete our entire video today. Since we had both the beginning and end clips from the last half film day we didn't have as much to work on. First, we filmed the second to last scene in front of Building 17. This is where the last scene in the commercial was shot. In this scene, I was the director, while Lili and Angie were the actors. Lili was supposed to drop the contents in her arms, then Angie handed her the bookbag and walked off while Lili packed up. This took a couple of shots but turned out pretty good in the end. After this, we went in front of the media center stairs to film the second shot. It was a little hard to get done at first because we had to find some people who could be extras in our bookbag as well as extra JanSport bookbags to use. We used mine for the first "pass it to Leila" and Sara. Another girl in our class was the one I passed it to. We moved to in front of the bus loop to film the next scene. Another girl in our class let us use her bookbag to film. Sara passed this bookbag to her partner for this project. We then went all the way to the soccer field to find someone else who had a Jansport backpack. Someone let us use their burgundy Jansport, but we decided not to use it in the film. A boy in our class named Eric let us use his bookbag, which was checkered for filming instead. Lastly, we shot the final scene left, which was Angie getting the bag passed to her. Since school was almost done at this point, we just went back to class and looked over the videos.



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