Plan For Next Shoot

27/02/15

As we are coming towards the end of our music video and only have to reshoot Grace's ballet dancing and outdoor shoot of Alex solo singing we made a quick plan on when we will carry out these shoots.

• On Monday 2nd February we will film Grace's dancing in the drama hall. When filming this scene we will use tripod based wide and long shots as well as handheld which will be done by Aaron.
• On Wednesday, we will film Alex at Danson Park performing her solo performance of her lip-syncing the song. Me and Hayley will carry out this shoot while Aaron and Megan are editing the music video. This is so that we are all using our time wisely and so that everything gets done quicker giving us time to review our music video and make any small changes if needed. 

Narrative Reshoot

23/02/15

Today Megan and Aaron reshot the narrative part of our music video with Grace; some being indoor shots and some being outdoor. I looked through some of the clips and they looked really good in that some of the shots taken where what we originally imagined and put in our storyboard. Our intentions from here will be including some of these shots in our final edits being shown at fast pace creating tension towards the audience.

 

 

Editing Yesterday's Shoot

16/02/15

As a group we went through the footage in which Megan, Hayley and I had filmed of Alex. We began selecting the best clips and started to in cooperate it in our music video edit on Final Cut Pro. By including the shots of the solo singing, in our edits, made the whole sequence look much better as the narrative ties in with the solo scenes.

Solo Performance shoot

12/02/15

We started filming all the solo performance of the singing again as we have now changed our artist. In the shoot we did today, Hayley and Megan are in charge of the cameras and setting the lighting up while i was in charge of her hair and make-up, costume and playing the song battlefield over and over again. 

             

We filmed this solo performance by setting up two cameras and taking a long shot of the whole song being performed. We did lots of retakes by changing the camera angle, panning and the zooming of the camera in each retake we did. Also the lip stick, costume and accessories were also changed in each retake so that we have lots of different variety of footage.

                       
                                

The shoot went really well as the lip sync Alex was doing went in sync with the song along with her facial expressions (visuals) which were expressing the song lyrics. The lighting was also equal making the clips we had taken look really good. The different camera angles we got really helped in getting a variety of shots which can be incorporated in our music video. By having a range of shots it makes the visuals of our music video pacey and interesting.

New Artist- Alex

11/02/15
We have now selected a new girl to act out the role of Isabel Beau. Alex will be our new Isabel Beau. We have come upon a decision of using her as she has the Pop star artist icon look and her performance from the test shoot tells us that she will be more than capable in acting and miming the song. Her facial expression and body language, when miming to Battlefield, is just what we were looking for in the performance. The re-shoot for the Pop start singing part will take place tomorrow after school in the gallery where we will style up Alex, set up the lights and camera and film her acting and singing to Battlefield.

Selecting new artist

11/02/15
After reviewing the shots Aaron and I had taken yesterday, we have come to conclusion of possibly having to re-cast for Isabel beau. This is simply because we feel that Poppy expresses the pop artist look perfectly however her performance doesn't quite match the song in which we are all imagining it to be. By her finding the lyrics difficult to memorize and express made the visuals not be in sync and flow with the music and lyrics, reflecting back to Goodwin's theory of music videos.
  We currently have another girl, Alex from year 12, who we are ding test shoots with right now to see if she suits the role. Here is the test shoot of Alex miming to Battlefield.

Poppy's singing reshoot

10/02/15

After school today Aaron and I went into the gallery and started getting the set ready, lighting and camera set up, so that we can do a reshoot of Poppy miming to the Battlefield song being Isabel Beau. We had to do a reshoot due to the incident before of the camera lens having a pale yellow filter. In today's shoot I, being the stylist, focused widely on the make-up and accessories making Poppy look like an actual pop star. The shoot went pretty well in the sense that the mise-en-scene element was fitting well and to what we imagined. When shooting this time round Aaron and I had decided to use two camera's when filming Poppy miming so that we get a range of shots in different angles; our initial idea was to use three cameras however due to the third not being available we stuck to using two.
Here are some of the shots we took:

Although everything went to plan I still think the scenes don't look good. It's not to do with the camera, lighting, costume or setting but i feel as if the performance is not as strong as we imagined and want it to be. Battlefield is a very emotional, aggressive at times, and affectionate song in which I don't think any of these adjectives are being expressed through the performance. Aaron and I discussed about this and decided to wait till tomorrow's lesson in which we will review over the footage taken and decide whether we need to re-cast or re-shoot talking to the whole group and Shaun.

Editing

04/02/15
We all went through the footage we got yesterday. I think the shots that we took looked really good and went along with our narrative well. Even the clip we took of from the iPhone of the  car scene looked pretty good. We began selecting the best shots cropping them to its right part and placing them in our music video edit to its right places. Our editing sequence of the music video has started to construct in a very positive way of it being exactly what we planned it to be like. I am pleased with the shots we have taken and the whole piece in which we are constructing.  

                               

Filming

03/02/15

We all went to Megan's house to film the arguing scenes of the parents and car scenes. We took the tripod and DSLR d1200 with the 50mm lens so that the pull focus can be shown beautifully to create the sense on tension being there. 

When filming the argument scenes, it was difficult for the parents to argue as they are not the argumentative type but once they started to get into the role i think they're performance was looking really good. I think the roles suited the parents really well as the dad is quite tall and butch representing the stereo typical view of the male dominating over the female that is innocent and vulnerable. Once we had filmed the argument scenes, we began to set up for the car scenes out side. However here we encountered a problem as the SD card that was given to us was only 8mp which was not enough space to film the car scenes inside. Here we overcame this problem by using an iPhone 5s which we knew for a fact has a good camera.

I think the shoot we did today went pretty well as we filmed on time and everything was organised of what we will film where and of who. We will now wait till Wednesday's Media lesson in which we will all as a group go through the scenes we captured today.

Plan for next shoot

30/01/15
We have all agreed to do a shoot on 03/02/15 at 4pm which is a Tuesday, in which we will be filming the narrative section focusing on the parents arguing and car scenes. Here we will be filming Grace and her parents. The scenes will be mainly of the parents arguing in the house down stairs in which we will capture in different shot angles and of the parents picking grace up from her ballet classes. When filming Grace we will have to make sure that the outfit she wears is the same as the ones we shot her in when filming her coming out her ballet classes.