Filming extra shots

Due to the lack of shots that we have had for the conceptual and the fact that we didn't want repeated shots in our video, we will have to film some more extra shots and edit in the next 3 days in order to reach our deadline. I think that this has definitely made us realise that planning, organisational skills and time is essential so that problems like this don't occur ever again!
The few shots that will be filmed will involve magentic letters and the dress used in the conceptual and the face of our character won't be shown but it will show her playing with the toys.
Many parts of the editing is complete, however deciding where to put the stop motion shots and other conceptual shots in the instrumental part has proved to be challenging as we have to ensure that the continuity of the shots flows well with the beat of the song.

Shooting in the classroom

We shot most of our music video in the media classroom which was uncomplicated for us because of easy access to the equipment we needed and the high quality lighting. Once we had chosen the right background, we began to finish filming the performance (since we had started it already). At first we started filming still shots for the performance and then our teacher told us to film whilst moving around so that the video will seem more alive and real. We then experimented and tried this out, and it thankfully made a positive difference to our music video. We encountered some problems along the way, one in particular was when the background kept falling down which became irritating and very time consuming. Another problem, we faced was when the lighting became very yellow and unclear for a few minutes so in order to solve this we had to fix the lights so that the bright colours would show clearly. When filming the conceptual we shot a range of shots (high angle, low angle,CU, ECU, long shot and extreme long shots) which involved many of the props such as the chess pieces, finger puppets, clown figure, rubik's cube and the bubble maker. Over the next couple days we were able to finish filming although we finished late we still managed to obtain lots of shots which is very beneficial for us during the editing process.

What is our music video about?

Our music video involves both conceptual and performance. We were inspired by the title sequence of Amelie and how the little girl was represented. We wanted to achieve a similar representation of our character in our video. In the conceptual, we will be using a range of props such as dice, stones, russian dolls, bubbles.etc to perputate the character's childhood and how as a child she was unableto interact with other children so she created her own environment using toys. In the performance, our character will be wearing a mask and an oversized suit to show their awkwardness and loneliness and how this hasn't changed anything. The mask will illustrate the hidden identity of our character, how different they are from society and the feeling of isloation.

The locations where we considered to film...

- The drama studio
      

- Green screen room

 



 

- Rebecca's house

 

 

 

- Our media classroom