Shooting Day 4

Today we shot most of the narrative sequences. We traveled to different locations, changed outfits, and used varied media equipment such as lighting.etc. Shooting required a timed schedule, that we managed to stick  to. We had to shoot some shots several times, so that we could achieve good quality footage. Sometimes we found that the shots that were achieved unexpectedly were our favourite shots. For example the birds-eye view shot of the bedroom.

Luke after a hard day of shooting!

Casting Discussions 2

We had another discussion about the male lead, as the person that we had originally cast, had prior commitments. We decided to cast Luke Stokes. He has the desired, indie styled look and he is extremely confident in front the camera. He was willing to commit to the shooting days and we were glad he decided to do it.

LiveType and Editing our Greenscreen

While editing our greenscreen , we needed to import a background that was animated and would stand out from the artist . We researched different backgrounds over YouTube , Google etc however we then came across LiveType whiched offered us many variations of animated backgrounds. We looked through the different backgrounds and selected a few , then we saved them as clips and imported them into final cut , from there we placed them over our selected clips to create the backgrounds. We had some difficulties with placing some of the clips overs the shot as the greenscreen had too many shadows which changed the background , unfortunately there was nothing we could do except re film them on a seperate day.

Shooting Day 1

Our costume for this performance scene; we wanted to have a bright outfit that would stand out from our location. We chose this outfit because it complimented our artist and made them look both glamorous but casual. This is what we aim to achieve throughout the music video as we want a relatable artist and star image.

Hair and Makeup- Shooting Day 1

Today we filmed one of the performance scenes. Here you can see Sophie in charge of hair and makeup for the performance. We wanted to have a dramatic and bright costume and makeup. This included false lashes and red lipstick as well as bright leggings. Our iconic image throughout the music video is the use of the bright red lipstick. We wish to maintain this throughout the music video as it will remain a vital part of our star's image.

Green Screen Test Shooting

We began a test shooting for our green screen to make sure we would be able to film this without any problems and to make sure this would work well. Testing our green screen we came across some difficulties , for example we noticed the lights made shadows which later on would make it difficult to edit successfully . We also noticed it was hard to keep the camera still because of our birds eye view shot and we thought this would make it look unprofessional .

Starting filming

We have currently started shooting for our music video , we have focused on shooting individual shots of our main actress 'Erna'. When doing this we have came across a few problems but have been able to overcome this , for example , when shooting a tracking shot down the street and changing the camera shots the mise en scene changes as different people walk in the shot each time , to overcome this we made sure we had no people walking through the shots as well as shooting the scenes at once. Another problem has been the weather but obviously this is something we cant change , yet when the weather changes dramatically e.g snow , we use our time for shooting inside shots and work on our blogs and artist portfolios.