Thursday 14 February 2013

Journal


Today we shot the class room scene which will feature at the start of your music video, within this scene we had the idea that the character will be sitting in class whilst listen to his IPod. When ‘One More Time’ plays he closes his eyes and when he opens them everyone has disappeared.  Before we started to film this section of the music video we had to make sure we had the right number of people to be in the class room scene, we had to make sure that the people that we got would follow our instructions. This scene will tie the music video together and help the audience gain an understanding of what the narrative of the video is.  What we film leads up to the character leaving the classroom; this is where it will link to what we filmed earlier on in the week.

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Journal

Today we started to film the corridor scenes; this piece of footage will link our dance routines together.  As we were unable to shoot at Woolwich Polytechnic we had to change the location of the shoot, the original corridor we were going to use were straight but due to the change in location it meant that we could no longer use a straight corridor. The reasoning behind using a corridor is so the character is able to run through each door and down flights of stairs. We came to a conclusion that it was highly beneficial in the end by not using a straight corridor; this is because it provides the video with pace and also it keeps the audience guessing.  When shooting this scene we decided to keep our video consistent and keep the quality good, we shot on the broadcast camera and by doing so it meant that the shot that we obtained were to a professional standard.

Friday 8 February 2013

Journal

Today we started to shoot was the Cha Cha Slide spoof section of our music video. This video was one of the easiest we had to shoot son far, this is because the costume and props we needed were easily obtainable. The costumes that we needed were simple, we needed casual dress meaning that the members had to bring in clothes they tend to wear, and the hardest part of shooting was obtaining the filming equipment as we had to make sure no one had booked the equipment for the same day as we wanted to films so I booked the equipment at the start of the week so we know we were able to use it. When filming we had a problem with lighting, we originally only used two lights as this is what we previously used, but we needed to add more light as the person at the front had a dark face and also the person who mocks the dancers in the video.

Lighting Problem


PROBLEM: The shot above is the first problem we stubbled across when shooting CHA CHA Slide, when using the green screen we chose to use two lights so the green screen is lit well. When we look at the footage it was obvious that the lighting didn't work affectively leading to the person closest to the screen being dark which means that it is lit equally.


SOLUTION: To resolve the problem we came to a clear conclusion that another light was needed to in order to get the shot equally lit. As you are able to see from this the person at the front is now lit equally in comparison with the people in the background. By lighting it correctly it meant that when it came to using Adobe After Effects, it is easier to edit and add the background in placement for the green screen.