Filming Progress

Thursday 7th October
We started the filming for the performance piece of our music video. We set up three cameras in the production room at different shot types. We had camera one set at a close up shot showing just the face. We decided to use this shot as there are some parts of the song that we believe are quite emotional, the close up shot allows us to portray this emotion in a rather intimate way. The protagonist was rather still on this camera and not much movement was captured. We set camera two at a medium shot. This shot shown just the face and the shoulders. It allowed us to keep the intimacy of the close up but also gave room for more movement and activity and emotion in the shot. Camera three was set at long shot. This allowed view of the whole body up to the knees. We decided on the use of this shot as it allowed the protagonist to move around freely with plenty of space not to go off the screen of the camera. We decided that for one part of the song where the artist lists of poets (Byron, Shelly and Keats) that the protagonist would have a piece of paper representing each poet’s work that she had read. These were held up at this point and shown to the camera. At the end of the verse where she says that nothing she writes is ever good enough, we decided that the protagonist would throw the pieces of paper in the air to signify how fed up she was that her lyrics were nowhere near as good as the works of the poets. We decided to perform the song all the way through on each camera so that we could pick out the bits we wanted during editing and fit them in with the narrative piece. Each camera performance was the same apart from in camera three, where the protagonist had the pieces of paper in her hands to throw in the air at the correct point.

Monday 18th October
We have filmed our location part of the video in which we went off sight and filmed at Reddish Vale. We filmed all the bits that will go with the chorus part of the video. We filmed no lip syncing as we believe it is not needed for the chorus and the narrative should help to illustrate the words of the video. We decided to use a bit of stop motion for the part in the songs that says 'Waste bin full of paper' in which a pile of paper keeps stacking up until it gets knocked over. We have used over the shoulder shots in which we have captured 'I love you' being written four times, in editing we will speed the writing up so it goes in time with the song. We have also spelt out the line 'D-E-F' and 'A-D-D' in rocks which starts off as close up on the first letter then a medium to show the first and the second and a long shot to show all three letters to help illustrate the words to the song. We believe that these things will help to make our video effective as it's something different that wouldn't happen in a 'Pop' video. We used close ups to show the frustration on the performers face in different parts of the song. We have also used a tracking shot which we will turn into a jump cut in editing.

Monday 8th November
We re-filmed some of our performance footage as we believed our original footage up to a good enough standard when piecing it with the narrative shots in the editing suite. Looking at what we filmed today it seems much better and will help our music video to look more professional as the performer is using more emotion rather than standing still with arms by her side. We re-filmed the medium and close up shots again and now the lip-syncing is perfect, we have kept our original long shot as that was fine the first time we filmed it. Now we have filmed this we shouldn’t need to film any more performance for our music video. Monday 15th November Today we filmed the final parts to add to our music video in the editing suite. Today we filmed Lucy writing more in the book and are going to use stop motion techniques to show this we have gotten her to write ' I love you' three times and 'is that okay?' we have done this as we believe showing these lyrics in the video will help to emphasize the meaning of the song to the audience. Also by using the book it will help to make our video look more interesting as other similar 'Pop' videos do not use it. Thursday 18th November Today we printed out poems by each of the three poets mentioned in the song lyrics. We found the poems on the internet and filmed one at a time being placed on top of each other in order as the song says them. We had planned to film the protagonist showing books of poems by each of the poets but when we looked for them in the library, we could only find books by Byron and Keats, so this is why we printed them off instead. We put the name of the poet in larger font to stress the words in time with the song.

Monday 22nd November
We were not in college today as we had a four day weekend so we decided to go to Lucy's house and film some more footage for the narrative part of our video. We decided to cut out love hearts in pink paper and make them into a heart shape for the line of the song "from my heart flow". We filmed one half of a heart for the word "from", the other half of the heart for the word "my" and then the whole of the heart for the word "heart". For the word "flow" we decided to use a fan to blow the hearts away. We put more hearts ff the shot so that when the fan blew them it gave more of an effect.

Tuesday 23rd November
After coming up with new ideas we decided to re-do the 'Getting of my stage' part of the song we have redone the green screen and use a different costume as we believed that using the bright dress we use in the narrative and the other parts of the performance wouldn’t be suitable for this part of the song as the verse is quite serious as she is now starting to give up with writing a song. After using the green screen we need to find a picture of a stage, to put in the background.