Mall Santa

 Once I finished filming at the ice-skating rink my group members and I went to the Galleria mall. When creating the storyboard, I remembered that the Galleria mall during the holiday season was very festive, they would put up trees and decorations all throughout the mall. Making this the perfect location to film a Christmas music video. I did not have a ride to the mall so Addison’s dad gave a ride to all my group members including myself. I tell my group where the letter-writing station to Santa was in the mall to film our 7th scene. I tell my group that it would be a good idea to write on the postcards to Santa asking him for a good grade in media studies as a joke. Once the filming was done we were onto our 8th scene. To include as many camera angles and movements as possible I suggest that we do an extreme closeup of the mailbox as we're dropping the letters inside. Once the scene was over with my group and I walk around the mall looking for good places to film. I see that they have a Santa seated in the center of the mall and I try recording him. But a worker told me I wasn't allowed to film the mall Santa without waiting in line and paying. I did not have the time nor the funds to do this so my group and I continue looking for places to film. While walking towards the end of the mall I see that there is a giant tree set up with a bench in front of it. Almost as if it were a photo op. So since I was not able to film our 9th, 10th, and 11th scenes as I originally intended we improvised. I filmed Lily and Addison skipping towards the giant tree and sitting on the bench in front of it. Then I thought about our 11th scene where it was supposed to be the characters waving at the camera as the camera slowly zooms out. Since we were not able to see the Santa, I improvised. I had Addison and Lily sit on the bench as I zoomed in and out of them waving goodbye to the camera. Ben was not able to be in the last few scenes because he had to go home early but my group and I adapted to this and continued filming anyways.