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Today, October 5, I finally able to record for the first time. I could have recorded on September 29, but my partner had to go to the doctor to check on his broken ribs. Then, on October 1, my partner was not at school again because he got contact traced. That day, the whole school was also on a code yellow, so we could not film on that day anyway. So, today I was really excited to film as my partner was present and the weather was really nice for filming. Him and I walked out to the baseball field and it was locked, so my partner jumped the fence to get his bat from the dugout. He came back and we then walked over to the storage container to get some baseballs as one of our props. We got our baseballs, walked to the field, and saw that one of the gates was actually open for the field. We walked over to the dugout and dropped our backpacks off and got our camera ready. I changed the setting of our GoPro to 1080p at 60fps so it would look smooth. We then started to practice the beginning scene by acting it out, then recorded. First take was perfect, so we moved on to the second scene. Here, we took about like 6 takes to get a good one of me pitching the ball. We got a pretty good shot of that, so we moved on to record my partner hitting the ball with the bat. We realized it probably wouldn't be safe for me to be that close to him recording without protection, so we got out the pitchers safety net, so I would be able to record close, but with protection. It took us many tries to get the low angle shot of him hitting the ball because it was hard for me to throw the ball, record, and tilt upwards with the camera. Eventually, we got the shot and moved to recording the areal shot coming up from the plate. This is where my homemade stick with a duck-taped GoPro stand on the end came in play. I would start recording while the lens was on the plate, back up and grab the end of the stick, then lift up to record my partner tapping the plate, and swinging. The tape started coming off of the stick because it was hot out and the adhesive melted a little, so I took my mask, put the elastic around the tape, and tightened the elastic so the GoPro mount would stay in place. This scene took us a couple tries to get the right angle, because I was not able to see the screen once I lifted it up. Lastly, we recorded the bat flying in the air and reveal the Easton logo to then hit the camera. By this time, the bell was about to ring, so we packed up everything and went back to the classroom. We have all of the scenes recorded, except for the last one, which is the easiest to record.


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