Final music video

Filming and Editing so far...

Filming
Tuesday 3rd April we went out for our final shoot, Hannah, Radhika, Mark and myself  for the first time since starting the coursework to film together. We realised we still hadn't filmed the scene of the girls kidnapping, when looking back at our storyboard this was the final link in our narrative that would have been unclear without it. We all met at Starbucks where we were to film the final shots of our actor Jonathon stalking Hannah and her friend and whisked her so that he can fulfil his fantasy of them two together.

We discussed as a group the where the scene would start and the choice of camera angle so we were all on the same page and understood the motions of each take. while filming we made sure that other peoples faces weren't captured on film and remained out of other shoppers way, to avoid any conflict or trouble from us filming in very public place. Theses are some of the snaps from the footage we took during filming the scenes before the capture which mark took using the bloogie and the second part of the day we filmed the scene of the girl being snatched on Hannah's camera so that the battery of the bloogie weren't fully wasted unable to fulfil the plans for those scenes.

Here mark films Jonathan following us out of the shop as we approach Starbucks to sit down and talk. After this shot our actor finds a sit 2 tables beside ours.

Then we are chatting as girls do but on camera of course...with Hannah in the centre still making known who are our main characters in the video.

This shot I directed of Jonathan looking over at the girl but having moments of him pretending not to be looking on purpose.

Hannah's character catches the attention of the male characters continuous gaze at their table so she whispers to us to start leaving.

Then Mark films the three of us leaving but from the view up over Jonathan's shoulder with his head bowed down looking unsuspicious. 

What I was really pleased with was the choices of angles Mark shot us three on the table, by directing the camera from right in front of the table in the position of where Jonathan's characters is sat, providing a natural depiction of her eye line to him. I also liked the cameras position over the shoulder this was really interesting, and I think it made for a very eerie shot through the varying distance and perspectives of us and Jonathan. Often while we were filming would review the footage just to see whether the camera wasn't straight or shook or turned at the wrong time to understand how many times more to shoot to get it to be perfect.

Moving on to the kidnapping scene we filmed this using Hannah's camera and this time Radhika filmed. Once again before we began filming we regrouped and discussed the steps into the next scenes. So we filmed around the parking lot near Starbucks in a long alley way close by to perform the kidnapping there.

I thought we should try film her running across the zebra crossing featuring only her feet to implement another form of camera angle.

We shot this scene a few times of him placing the tissue over her nose, we advised that he didn't clutch it tight. We filmed them up against a brick wall as if it were harsh ambush, with the camera close-up from their shoulders to their faces to capture the agony in Hannah's face and the violence of the actors emotions and actions. 

 Then we filmed him putting the girl into the back of his car with no signs of cars on either side of him which we made the move to an isolated area.

We even had the space to film a clean getawy in the car, which Hannah drove since our actor nor group had a license to do so. From Hannah being the actress had to then transform into the stunt double for Jonathon her obessed admirer!?

Our music video had no budget or costs to it, but in a professional music video the stunt double you employ will need  to have similar characteristics to the artist, and then they adopt similar clothing or make-up of that particcular person they're replacing. On the left is a photo of Jennifer Lopez on the set of her new music video alongside her stunt double who is a man with a wig of the same hair do and clothing as J.lo.

Hoo-ray! We are done, well for filming that is. I am so excited to fill the final minutes of our music video. Towards the end of the day the weather was beginning to get colder and colder, but by that time we were successful in completing all shooting. Once we finished Hannah pointed her camera in an high angle shot of the trees surrounding the car park. She took it in a slow circular motion that I really liked the view of the branches I thought this was very effective this could be useful to add to our music video. 

Editing

On 18th April, I joined Hannah in the Mac room to transfer all our footage we did two weeks ago to make the final touches to our music video featuring the kidnapping scene. We even used the view of the trees Hannah took and made a colour correction into black and white. We then informed the rest of our group of our sucessful editting session and submitted it to our media teacher for tommorows showcase.

Below is our final draft of music video since the feedback we recieved that corection were made.

Filiming and Editing so far...

We last filmed Monday 19th of March a month before our showcase in April.

Hannah and I went to film the first and final scene of the storyboard when Jonathon decides whether to shoot her and then he makes the unfortunate mistake to kill her when Hannah are actress couldn't fulfil his demented fantasy.

Before we headed to our location in the park, we went to a toy shop in our local area to buy a gun as an important prop in the scene. They only sold blue or red coloured guns for £1.99 to prevent people use it for other misleading ulterior motives. These were the reasons why most shops don't sell them in black like they use too. We spilt the money to buy the blue gun for our video considering the song is called 'Blue Skies' by Noah and the Whale. Other props we prepared for the shoot was a blue rope Hannah got from home and an antique guitar from home to use for the performance part in the storyboard.

To shoot we went to Lea valley park which was more than enough space to shoot our video, our first mission was to find the right tree to have the actress tied up when he tries to keep her from getting away. We walked down a long path for about 20 minutes and all the trees we saw were either to big to get her arms or even the rope around it. To make use of time and location we stopped by an area in the park with a bench and trees around a dry muddy path and shot the performance scene with my guitar down this path and around the natural scenery.

We then ventured further into the woods and found the perfect tree to shoot near a bridge right infornt of the bright sunshine, which we benefited from the natural sunlight helped establish a greater intensity of the surrounding. Hannah and I collaborated when it came to directing. She would suggest I get a close up of the the hands coming free and I would give words for Jonathan to feed off of to convey the emotions of a lovestruck psycho. We filmed a lot of scene surrounding this part in the story. We filmed some lip syncing on the bridge and also key in a video extra shots of the surrounding such as trees, the landscape the sky, water, etc.

Some of the issues we faced while shooting were capturing people walking their dogs into the frame. Ensuring spectators from worrying of the position of our actress tied to the tree and Jonathan with the gun that we would kindly approach them explain the scenario of our mission there. Other than that we had a really successful day of shooting the most dramatic part of our video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKzCKEesZ4E&feature=youtube_gdata

Filming and editting diary

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filming and editing so far