Second Day of Filming

The second day of filming was focused on the introduction to our music video. We used the dark room in school with the permission of our art department; in my opinion it was very useful being in school and not out on location, my reason being because if anything should have gone wrong it would be easy to get something fixed or to get some forgotten devices needed for our shoot.

We chose to film this particular scene in a dark room as we needed the bright spot lights to focus on our main character Kim. However, unfortunatly the lights were not working as some students had broken them a few days before - this created a number of problems for us as we did not know how we were to shoot the scene. our initial idea was to have the lights flashing with different coloured filters switching to the beat. Furthermore, seeing as we could not use the lights, we figured out a way to do the scene with out them, but using the light on the iPhone 4S instead, which worked perfectly well. To make it a little bit more interesting we used the light on Iva's phone and projector paper with the lyrics on it which created a shodow/silhouette on Kim's face and the background.
Once we had finished the particular section of the song we had planned to film, with time remaining we decided to film a few cut aways, therefore, this way, any sections of the music video not completed we can use these cut aways to fill the gaps. So far i feel as though we have achieved a lot in a short amount of time and im sure our hard work will continue and will hopefully pay off.

First Day of Filming

Our first day of filming took place on Friday 9th December using Wimbledon Common as our location. We filmed from around 2:30 - 4, throughout that period we shot all of the shots that we needed for the scenes in the forest.

What made it even more special was the fact that we got there just in time for sunset which made our shots even more beautiful - with the sun shining through the trees. Whilst filming we used the school's camera and tripod which helped us a great deal and worked well for tracking and panning. In addition to filming the scenes we were recording all of the process throughout using Iva and Shazma's cameras. We found that Iva's camera (iPhone 4S) especially had very good quality, having tried a few test shots with that camera, we decided to use it as well as the school's as it is very good quality. Using both video cameras we will now try and combine the shots taken with both cameras in our music video; the only down side to this is the fact that the two camera's have two completely different qualities and it may ruin the outcome of the music video and may create an amateur look. Along with the fact that some shots taken with the iPhone were a little shaky as we did not have a tripod to help us out.

I believe we used our time wisely as by the end of the two hours we had got all the shots needed from the forest, now all we have to shoot are the scenes in the dark room and in central London.

Preparation for filming

Last lesson we finalised our ideas for the location for the shooting of our music video.

We decided to shoot particular scenes in wimbledon common as it has parts which are very similar to a forest.
Another location we agreed on was Chelsea Embankment. We chose this part of London and of the river Thames because the landscape is the sort of feel we wanted the music video and the song to have. Another reason being the pretty lights the bridge has at night, we thought this would make the video a little bit more special and pretty.

Particular scenes of the video (the first and last scene) we decided to shoot in a studio with a white background. Thankfully our school have a small photography studio and have agreed to let us use it for these scenes. We will also be shooting one or two scenes in a house, in a living room or kitchen, which is still yet to be decided.

Prop list: Video camera (to test out, if we do not like the quality we will be using a canon slr camera)
Tri-pod
Colour filters (for first and last scene)
Speakers
iPod
Clothing: Our leading actress will hopefully be wearing quite casual clothing with a bit of an edge to it. For example, take these models:

. This has a very autumnal feel to it, which is the excat look we are going for. It's casual, but at the same time fashionable and a little bit edgey.

In some of the other scenes the actress will also be seen in a floral dress similar to the left.
Now all the planning has been done we're going to hopefully be filming tomorrow, and hopefully it will be a nice and sunny day!

Final stage of planning

Once we all individually came up with a moodboard of all our ideas, we went on to do our storyboarding. at first we did one as a group, putting all our ideas together, later on i went and added my own bits to it and presented my ideas to the group. whilst doing so, i also came up with options for the locations, as did the rest of my group.
Over the past week, the storyboard has changed a little bit as we realised that what we had planned was a little bit too pretencious and that we needed to be professionals to pull something like that off.
Below are pictures/examples of our planning, and how we our ideas changed and eventually progressed into our final plan for the music video:

Sarah Blasko twitter

We have approached Sarah Blasko to get her permission to use her song for our music video.
The evidence is shown below.
We used the social networking site Twitter in order to do so, as it was also the most convinient way; we will also be using other social networking websites such as Facebook.

Planning music video 2

Once we decided on the song we quickly brainstormed all our ideas and came up with a list of location, props and anything we could think of: Autumn, Britishness, Instruments, Band, Girl walking towards camera, Moon and stars - full moon. We researched into this in particular, finding out when the next full moon is so we can hopefully film on that day which is 10th November or 10th December; we've unfortunatly missed the full moon on the 10th November so hopefully we can catch the full moon on the 10th December instead.

This is an example and evidence of a moodboard i created with all my ideas of the location and the feel i thought the video should have to it:

After we combined all our ideas we started on the story board as soon as possible. We each went away and drew our own storyboards with all our individual ideas put on, once we had all the ideas we later merged the ideas into one storyboard trying to fit as much as possible.
Whilst brainstorming we researched all the possible locations, which later on came down to different locations of London, including Albert Bridge

Planning our music video

Over the past week, within our group, the dicussions centered around the various ideas about the music video we are going to make. Each member of the group presented their choice of song and the reasons behind their choice. Overall we chose ten songs, but narrowed it down to six and soon after the final two. The songs chosen were a mix of indie, rock and folk. We decided to focus on this area of music as we did not want to choose a typical song and artist most groups would chose, also because many people may already have a preconcieved image of what the music video should be like. Like this we would be able to do a lot more with the song and music video and be as original as possible. The selected songs were:

• Modest Mouse - Float On
• One Republic - Say (All i Need)
• No Doubt - Just A Girl
• Lucy Rose - Scar
• Laura Marling - Night Terror
• Best Coast - Boyfriend
• Sarah Blasko - We Won't Run

We then narrowed our options down to our two favourites by Laura Marling and Sarah Blasko. As the decision was very difficult we thought it would be a good idea to get an opinion from four of our other class mates, the result of the tally chart was Laura Marling 0 and Sarah Blasko 4.



Their decision was based on the fact that "We Won't Run" was more up beat and that we could do a bit more with it than "Night Terror" By Laura Marling.