Bissell Vacuum Commercial Filming Blog


 Filming Blog

  On October 31st, 2020 I filmed all the parts to my commercial at my house. I was the director and the person in charge of filming the commercial. My sister was the actor for my commercial. Throughout the filming process I was the one that decided how each scene was shot, from what angle, how the camera moved, and what the actor did in that specific scene or shot. 

There were many scenes in which it took several takes to get the shot just right. For example, in the first scene I had to film a bowl of cheerios falling in slow motion and then splattering cheerios everywhere as it made contact with the ground. The scene however, was rather difficult to film due to bowl not correctly falling. When I would drop the bowl, sometimes it would bounce off camera and most of the cheerios would end up off camera too. Nonetheless, I kept reshooting the film until I got it to look exactly the way I wanted it to.

   Throughout the second scene I struggled with the filming of the scene due to me not having a tripod, proper phone stabilizer, or any thing of the sort that kept the camera still and reduced the shakiness. Due to this, many shots, especially from the second scene, came out a bit shaky. This caused me to have to reshoot many scenes or shots.

   In the sixth and final scene I had a bit of trouble with having the vacuum be outside. During the night before we filmed, it had very heavily rained so all the streets in my neighborhood had flooded pretty bad. However, my sixth and final scene took place outside and involved the use of a car which was in the flooded area. I had to move the car from its original spot to a much more elevated place that was not flooded so that the vacuum wouldn't get wet. 

    As director I took care of all these problems that came up and directed how each scene was filmed. Throughout the commercial I decided what angle each scene or shot was filmed in, whether that be a high angle shot or low angle shot. I also chose what props were to be used throughout the commercial and how they would be incorporated. As director I also informed my actor of what they should do in each scene and how certain actions should be executed.







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