Planning Blog for Gatorade Commercial

Today in my AICE Media Studies class my group and I worked on making a plan for our commercial. We worked together to decide what props we need and what costumes will be worn. We also worked on creating a schedule, deciding the locations for filming, and our backup plan. We established our roles in making the commercial, like who was going to be the main subject. We decided that Leila and Emma will be the actors and Hailey and I will do any voice overs needed and be the camerawomen. Everyone in the group took part in providing ideas and feedback for the commercial as we were planning. Everyone would do their own research, then go over what they found together. Emma and Hailey mostly worked on finding ideas for props and costumes. Leila was in charge of keeping notes of everyone's findings. I worked on the schedule and backup plan. Together we researched where we should do our filming. We finished our plan for the commercial, but it is possible that it might change a little. Before it is time for us to film, we might come up with new ideas and change our original plan slightly. 

Props:
Since my group and I decided to produced a Gatorade commercial, our main prop is a Gatorade drink. Other props we will include are a soccer ball, tennis racket and tennis balls.

Costumes:
In our commercial, we will have two of our group members as the subject. Our actors would wear athletic clothes. They would either wear athletic shorts or athletic leggings with light color tank top or a cotton t-shirt. They would also wear running shoes or tennis shoes. We might have our actors wear sweat bands or headbands to keep their hair out of their face. If we could not obtain sweat bands or headbands, our actors would wear their hair in a ponytail.

Schedule:
On 10/8/19, our group research conventions and codes of sports drinks commercial.
On 10/11/19, our group establish the props, costumes, schedule, location list, and backup plan.
On 10/15/19, our group will create the storyboard for the 30 seconds commercial.
On 10/22/19, our group will film and record the necessary shots for our commercial.
On 10/24/19, our group will edit and add the final touches to the commercial.

Location List:
Our main location is the track field. At the track field, we will film our two actors before, during and after running the track. This would help emphasized the need of Gatorade to have energy at practice.Also, we would film our two actors kicking a soccer ball or doing soccer drills.

Our second location is the stairwell in front of the media center. At this location, we will film our two actors playing basketball and hitting a tennis ball against the wall. This would help us show athletes from different sports can gain energy from Gatorade.

Backup Plan:
If  there the weather is not good or preferable, then our location will be the area by the stairwell closes to building 505 or the grass area between the auditorium and building 5. We would quickly film our actors passing a soccer ball. If one of our members are absent, then one of the actors would take over the position of camerawoman.