Filming - Hall Place

Yesterday, my group and I successfully filmed more footage for our project. We have managed to gain a couple of shots which we will upload onto Adobe Premier Pro CS3 to play around with once we get back to school. We have planned to have another day of filming tomorrow to ensure that we can go to different places and have more footage that we can play around with. I have included some photos below that were taken on our most recent filming day:

When filming these scenes we took the mise-en-scene into account. We believed that the theme of love and romance could be portrayed in these scenes with the romantic walks in the woods and walks across fields.

Artist Shots

Last Thursday we successfully managed to take several shots for our artist shots. We have taken a variety so that we can use them in our ancillary tasks too. I have included some of the images that were taken below:

We chose to do our images like this because from looking at previous examples of artist shots we were able to understand the common conventions. The first image is similar to the image taken of Daniel Merriweather (below) as we have made our lead singer, Peter, clasp his hands together. However, we have chosen not to make Peter have eye contact with the camera as we thought it may look more effective. I do, however, believe that now from looking at the image it may have been more effective if Peter had been looking at the camera so that the target audience felt more involved when looking at it.

Changing of Ideas

From changing our lead singer from Kyle to Peter we now have to reshoot the footage that we have already taken. This is because one of the shots that we took includes an image of Kyle and me in a photo, this now needs to change to an image of me and Peter. We will still be following the original narrative that we had created as we believe that if we were to change this we would be wasting valuable time.

From deciding that we need to reshoot, my group and I were going to reshoot today. However, after sitting down in our lesson and talking about it we decided that we were no longer going to film today as we needed to plan exactly what needed to be done. From doing this we have now told each other when we are free to film in the Christmas holidays, what we are going to film in the Christmas holidays and where. I have included an image of the new production schedule below that we hope to follow:

My group and I are still going to shoot our artist shots today though as we feel that this will benefit us well. From knowing that the artist shots are taken we would then be able to, individually, develop our print work ideas with the images that we have taken.

Shot List Remake

Due to the change of cast, my group and I had to change the shot list. We had to change the shot list because our previous lead singer, Kyle, was written in it whereas we need to now change that to Peter. I have included an updated version of the shot list below:

Recasting

Today my group and I sat down and spoke about the development of this task. We have decided to recast our music video by replacing our original lead singer, Kyle, with another boy, Peter. We chose to do this as we would need to film footage over the Christmas holidays but our original lead singer is on holiday. We have chosen to use Peter as he has the same study periods as we have at school, he is available throughout the Christmas holidays and has happily agreed to do it.

From changing our lead singer we had to make changes to our timeline of the shots we are going to create. Below is a copy of the changed timeline:

From deciding that we are going to change the lead singer in our production we now need to reshoot the shots that we took at the bakery. We need to reshoot as the image that I have in my hand in one of the scenes is of me and Kyle but we now need to change that to me and Peter. However, we do not think that this will be a problem as we can get a lot of our footage, if not all, done over the Christmas holidays now that we are using Peter compared to getting no footage done if we were using Kyle. We will still be using the same narrative as before for our production.

Artist Shots - Problem

Today, my group and I planned to take pictures of our lead singer, Kyle. We managed to book out the cameras that we needed to use, book out the art rooms and our lead singer turned up on time. However, we faced a problem that would not allow us to carry on our task as an art exam was occuring causing the art rooms to be locked at lunchtime which is where the cameras were. We will now have to reschedule our photoshoot for another day.