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 Hello World,

WE FINISHED!!!!!! My group and I went to Barnes and Noble on Tuesday and we were able to finish filming the WHOLE video. But before getting to the location, we ran into some problems. The first problem was that one of the actors who was going to be one of the main character's friends told me 30 minutes before I left my house that he wasn't going to be able to show up. So, I asked my brother to be in the music video and he accepted the offer. The second issue was that my friend, who was also an actor, told me last minute that she wasn't going to be able to come either because she had no one to drive her. So, I offered to give her a ride to the location, meaning that problem was solved. Since I had to pick her up, I was going to be 20 minutes late from the 11 a.m. time that we originally placed for everyone to be there. But, that wasn't a problem since everyone was running late anyway. When I got to my friend's place, Madelyn (my group mate who was going to be filming the video) texted me that she probably wasn't going to be able to come film either because her parents didn't want to pick her up at the Barnes and Noble once we were finished. Meaning, I had to take one for the team again and I offered to drive her home. But in the end, everyone that we needed showed up. Madelyn was going to arrive later than everyone else due to an issue, so my brother helped us film some scenes that only involved me and Michael (the actor playing the main character). At that moment, we were filming the last scenes that would appear at the end of the music video and these were the most annoying scenes we filmed. This is because every time we would begin to film, cars would drive past us, people would be walking in the area where we were filming, and whenever we would actually attempt to film the scene Michael wouldn't get to his position on time. While we were shooting these scenes, Madelyn arrived and filmed the rest. Then, we headed to the Starbucks within the Barnes and Noble to eat and also film a couple of scenes there. These in my opinion were the quickest scenes to film since they were fairly simple. The only thing that we had to ponder on was how we were going to film without getting other people in the shots and in what way were we going to film without making anyone uncomfortable. But we figured it out and honestly it was kind of awkward, especially since there was an elderly couple talking and making fun of us. But overall it was fine. After eating and shooting what we needed downstairs, we headed to the second floor to film the rest of the video. To me, this was the hardest and funniest couple of scenes to film because when it came to the part where Michael had to be "creeping" on me, it was so difficult not to laugh. Just to make it seem more natural, we were having random conversations which were hilarious to me. My brother throughout the whole process did really well but he kept getting on my nerves once in a while because he would attempt to explain to him what he was supposed to be doing in certain scenes and he kept playing dumb as if he didn't understand But when one of my friends would explain it to him the same way I did, he understood it the first time. But overall, we all were laughing the entire time and it was really fun making this music video. I'm glad I got to do something like this with my friends.

Until next time!!!!!

Giovanna Pereira



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