Filming - Day 5

For our final filming we decided to get into the other half of the narrative of the music video. This is where it is made clear that the boyfriend is cheating on her and that it is revealed that he has a bit on the side.

The Plan:
1. To shoot him realistically having an affair with another girl
2. To show them in an interesting embrace as well as showing the effect of her poisoning him with alcohol
3. To have an interesting twist at the end to ensure a good storyline.

The Four Sections:
1. The Welcoming Scene
2. The Corridor Scene
3. The Sofa Scene
4. The Poisoning Scene
5. The Projector Scene
6. The Second Poisoning Scene
7. The Concequences Scene (wandering into the road)

The Props Used:
The camera
The Tripod
The sofa
The white wall in the location
The projector
The tray
The wine glasses
The wine
The two tablets
The living room.


The Outcomes:

Filming - Day 4

Filming - Day 3

This was the third day of filming that we did and when we started to work on the second verse. I got there at 2 o'clock so we were able to get a lot done and still be able leave early. In the second verse she changed her outfit so that it looks like she had changed from her boyfriend's clothes.

The Plan:

• To pay more attention to the detail to ensure for better quality in the final product
• To add more variations to shots by having the close up and medium shots filmed at the same time
• To create a slightly differently approach when filming the second verse.

The Three Sections:
1. The Side View Scene
2. The Front View Scene
3. The Kitchen Scene

The Props Used:

• The two cameras
• The tripod
• The blue light lamp
• The clip lamp 
• The fan
• The spotlight
• The side wall

The Outcomes:

1. The Side View Scene

This the setup that we used when shoting the second verse.

• we had had a good outcome because of the lighting and our actress worked the camera and the music very well because it wasn't all new to her.
• We used the fan to good effect as it gave a professional look to an ordinary location

     2. The Front View Scene

• We had been successful in showing two sides to look professional
• the fan turned out well, giving a professional look to an ordinary background
• we used different shots with the two different angles successfully 

Filming - Day 2

On the second day of filming with my group I had decided to turn up earlier to see if we come better natural light although we still started filming at 6pm.

Our Plan:

•  Firstly to redo all scenes because not many were successful
• To pay more attention to the detail to ensue for better quality in the final product
• to add more variations to shots by having the close up and medium shots filmed at the same time

The Two Sections:

•  The Bathroom Scene
• The Bedroom scene

Props used:

• Both cameras
• The tripod
• The bed
• The studio light
• The bedroom light
• Natural light
• Lamp light
• Two Box Lights
• Bath Soap
• Dove Liquid Soap
• Hot Bath
• Big Bouquet of Roses

The Outcome:

1. The Bathroom Scene

This shows the setup that we created to film.

• Firstly, we made a successful bathroom scene because we used more liquid soap, more used in showers rather than for washing dishes which made the bath far more bubbly with the extra added hot water to make it look realistic.
• Secondly, we had bigger rose petals and only rose petals because we wanted a nicer look and a more delicate effect.
• Thirdly, we used more lights so that the room was more light and has better quality overall.

      2. The Bedroom Scene

• Firstly, we used a lot more lights so that the footage ended up being a lot more clearer and allows us to see the female lead's face a lot more clearly.
• Secondly, we used different outfits to capture the ongoing of the storyline. 

Filming - Day 1

On the first day of filming my group and I turned up at the location at 6 pm without set up of previous experience in filming.

Our Plan:

• We had decided to split our filming session into three sections
• We had to wait until dark time for our video to have the perfect setting

• We had decided to bring both our provided camera by the school as well as using Sath personal camera

The Three Sections:

• The bed room scene 
• The getting ready/kitchen scene
• The bathroom scene

The Props used:

• Both cameras
• The tripod
• The bed
• The studio light
• The bedroom light
• Natural light
• Lamp light
• Fairy Liquid washing up soap
• Rose and daisy petals and buds

The Outcome:

1. The Bedroom Scene

• Firstly, we used the natural darkness but that didn't work to our advantage later as we saw that the footage was blurred because the camera didn't pick up near enough light.
• we didn't have time to go through the lyrics with the actress so she kept getting the lyrics wrong.

     2. The Getting ready/Kitchen Scene

• Firstly, that went well because we had recorded the intimacy that we had wanted to create
• Secondly, we believed that it was a bit too dark so we had to lighten it up a bit in editing.

     3. The Bathroom Scene

• Firstly, we used fairly liquid and cold water so it turned the water green and didn't leave many bubbles for us to use.
• Secondly, the the flowers that used weren't roses so that petals weren't that big or very flattering to the footage.
• Thirdly, there weren't that many flowers put in so the bath didn't look as nice as it could have. 

Costume and Props Slideshow

This is an animoto on our costume and props used in the video so far.


Make your own slideshow at Animoto.

Practice Shots - These are the practice shot for our new video (Jessica And I)

To avoid wasting time or creating more expenses for ourselves than we already have, we decided to a practice filming. What we were able to obtain from our practical filming is each other strengthens, for example:

- Who would be good at tracking shots?

- Who would be good at pans?

- Who is skillful with handheld cameras?

- Who could be good at filming long shots?

- Who would be best for editing the footage?

- The positions to hold the camera, to achieve certain camera shots?

All of these questions we were able to determine the answer for by our practice filming. Due to the schedule of lessons we were force to split up into two groups (Seun and I, Prince and Sath). Taking in turns each person had an opportunity to film using several camera angles and shorts.

Seun and I mainly focused on the opening scene (the staircase scene), We took several takes,approximately 8 different takes till we felt the opening scene was good enough. By taking the several clips, Seun and I found that Seun was more skillful at tracking shots and POV shotsthan I, as well as how we should record the opening clips. 

Being the opening scene it must not only by eye-catching but of good quality, therefore practicing filming the opening scene we thought must be essential For example we learnt in order to create a smooth, crisp tracking shot our artist would need a step ahead on the staircase, and whoever is taking the shot approximately two steps behind. One issue that came to our attention is the POV shot; due to not having the expenses to use high-tech equipment such as a craneour artist would need to know how to hold the handheld camera, along with what position would create a smooth POV shot. Having a high-tech equipment such as crane would help us avoid the issue of our artist knowing how to handle a handled camera. Nonetheless from doing the practical with Seun, we learnt that our artist would need to be bent quite forward to avoid her/his knee from dominating the footage. (Photoshop jess)

In this clip below you may notice a few things (which we hope you could ignore) such as the fact that we have used two different shoes, this is because (as mentioned earlier) Seun is better at positioning herself to get a clear, smooth POV shot.

Here is short footage of our practice shot - put together using final cut. 

Animatic - This Is The Animatic For Our New Video

This is our animatic for our new music video choice, Melanie Fiona 4 AM. As part of preparation for our final video we had decided to do a paper practice of our video that we would like to create, we had Sath and Prince to make an animatic.

Cast - People that would feature in our new music video

In our music video we would have a cast which would be set to to take the roles of:
The main girl
The main guy
The sideline girl

For the lead role we decided to cast Queen Phillips to take the role of Melanie Fiona.

 We felt that Queen showed almost all the qualities of Melanie and would portray her accurately.












For the role of the guy we decide after much deliberation, Reke because we thought that he would appeal to our Target audience as well as being reliable.

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For the role of the sideline girl we decided to cast Sarah for the video.