Travelling all around Florida

 Hello to my amazing blogger fans! Welcome back! I'll be discussing the journey we made through ALL of Florida JUST to get these shots in!!! Just kidding, there's more to it😉 but LETS GET RIGHT INTO IT.

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As you should know from my prior blogs, my group members and I traveled 11 hours and visited 6 different universities in Florida! My school offers a college trip where students can visit and explore local in-state university campuses—which may become our future schools... Leah, Nay, Phi, and I had decided we were going to go on the trip before we had even thought of this project. So, you can understand why this was the PERFECT opportunity to get some clips in for our project😛. Our plan was to shoot a short clip of each girl walking in front of a sign that had their assigned university on it! So mine would have been UCF, Phi's was UF, Nahomy's was FSU, and Leah's was USF! 

Day 1

On the first day of our college trip, we were set to film Phi and my clips: UF and UCF! However, as I mentioned in my "Struggles" blog, we didn't end up filming my scene in front of UCF because of the 'camera left on the bus' incident, so that was definitely a failure on our (Jason's) behalf! So, for our next stop at UF, we made SURE to carry the camera with us everywhere. This was a self-guided tour, so the lads and I walked through the entire campus to look for the perfect sign that read "University of Florida." Once, we found a scenic place where we could finally film Phi's (or should I say Eli's) clip! We directed Phi to stand in front of the camera to cover the sign, then walk off into the distance to create a wide shot. Also, remember we were filming this in front of a busy area with many UF students passing and wanting to get through😭. Nahomy, being the queen camerawoman she is, recorded this very quickly and steadily! Just like that, we were set and enjoyed the rest of the campus😌! Later, we met back up with the rest of the group and grubbed at the dining hall and later played UNO with some of our other friends in the game room. Overall, we all LOVED this campus and rated it in our top two! 

Day 2

Day two of the college trip!!! On this day, we visited FAMU and FSU. From the moment we arrived on campus, the bus had driven past the entrance of the school, and we IMMEDIATELY knew we wanted to film Nay's clip there. Her scene was very scenic, with the fountain, brick building, and "The Florida State University" sign!  However, we were quite rushed filming Nahomy's scene as we were going to eat right when we got there, but we made our chaperone wait for us to get the perfect clip😜! At first, we directed Nahomy to stand in front of the camera like Phi did and walk off. We weren't loving how it was looking, so we asked Nay to try some other' 'walk-offs.' Once we got our clip, we quickly joined the rest of our group and made a LONG walk to the dining hall, where we grubbed some more😎. This campus was another one of our favorites alongside UF (we can't decide which campus we liked better)! 

Day 3

Our final day on the trip😓. On this day, we visited USF and FGCU (which we hated...)! This tour ended up being self-guided yet again, so as soon as we got there, we set off to look for a scenic sign for Leah! At this point, we were starting to get a bit stressed because we thought we didn't have enough clips for our film, so in between it all, Nahomy filmed some establishing filler shots JUST in case we needed to add a few more seconds... Once we found the perfect "University of South Florida" sign, we quickly got into positions (by now, we already knew what we had to do) and recorded Leah. Like our other clips, we directed her to stand in front of the camera and then walk off. I honestly liked this campus! I would rate it 3rd (UF and FSU being 1st and 2nd) on my 'favorite campus' list. However, the girls didn't like it as much as I did. Something we could definitely all agree on was that this school had the BEST dining hall yet!!