Emails

Today we emailed one of the drama teachers asking if we would be allowed to film in the drama pod! The answer that we got was short and sweet meaning good news to us!

Lighting test

Today we decided to experiment and test with the lighting that will be used in filming. Claudia found a video which had interesting lighting Who Owns My Heart - Miley Cyrus and we decided to try our hands on setting our lighting in a similar way to see the effect

And this is what we came up with

Take two

Made a schedule today too! Hoping for the best that it's not the timetables that we make a jinxing us hahaha!

Timetables

If everything goes to plan, we will be filming the last party scene and the walking scenes today. We decided upon sticking to a time table so it would hopefully help us stay organised!

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UPDATE

The filming was alright, even though we has a major issue. The place was couble booked with the Orchestra and we couldn't film until they were done at 4:00pm Setting up took us 30 minutes so we were able to begin filming at 4:30pm

5:00pm it was already dark so we went on to film the walking scenes outside. It went smoothly and so we were done by around 6:00pm because we HAD to leave by then. We filmed about half of the shots that we needed to, but it's okay, we will film the rest on another day.

Shot list for Tomorrow!

ISSUES

Yeah! So as you can see we are having major issues. None of us like how the filming turned out and the lack of our extras was very shocking and disappointing! We had a group meeting and decided that the best course of action would be to re film the scenes making sure that we have all the people present! Or atl east...most of them.

Bedroom Filming

Today we are filming the bedroom scene! And we managed to complete it quite quickly. We were done in two hours! We had so much fun too. This may be the reason why it seems like the two hours went by so fast.We didn't spend the whole time fooling around, I promise!

And as a treat, here's some behind the scenes footage

Collaborated full shot list!

DARK ROOM SCENES:

• Close up shot of character's boots (from right to left of frame).
• Mid-shot (from the waist down) of character sitting down (from right to left of frame).
• Over the shoulder shot of character typing on the keyboard.
• High angle shot of character typing.
• Panning shot of character sitting down, watching the screen in front. (moving from out to in)

DARK PARTY: 1ST VERSE/CHORUS:

• Master shot of the party scene
• Mid-shot of the dancers dancing
• Close up of feet
• Mid-shots of two individuals dancing
• Close up of individual dancing
• Close up of individual dancing
• Mid-shots of body (from the waist down)
• A mid-shot of character walking into the crowd from the left of the screen
• Mid-shot of character's face
• Mid-shot of DJ's face
• Mid-shot of his back walking out
• Close up of his shoes walking out
• Close up of DJ bag
• Close up of boom box in their hand

DARK PARTY SCENES: 1st Chorus:

• Mid-shot of dancers dancing.
• Mid-shot of character walking through the crowd (in the centre of the frame).
• Low angle shot of the dancers dancing.
• High angle shot of character walking
• Mid-shot of DJs walking out from the back 
• Close up of the DJ shoes
• Close up of individual dancing
• Close up of individual dancing
• Mid-shot of dancers dancing
• High angle shot of dancers dancing.
• Panning shot of dancers dancing.

BEDROOM SCENES:

• Wide shot of character sitting on her bed, looking through books/notepads/laptop (long take)
• Close up the character (placed on the right side of the frame) on her laptop.
• Mid-shot of the character (placed on the right side of the frame) on her laptop.
• Close up of the laptop

GLOWSTICK PARTY:

• Low angle shot of dancers dancing with glowsticks at an angle (10 sec)
• Wide angle shot of the glowsticks and the dancers (10 sec)
• Panning of the dancers with glowsticks (10 sec)
• Midshot of two dancers with glowsticks in their hands (10 sec)
• Wide shot of the dancers tapping with their glowsticks in the air (10 sec)
• Close up of one dancer with their glowstick in the air (10 sec)
• Tilt up of the camera at one dancer with her/his glowstick in the air (10 sec)
• Close up of the dancers feet jumping up and down (10 sec)
• Panning of the camera on the dancers with glowsticks (10 sec)
• Close up of two dancers with their glowsticks in the air (10 sec)
• Wide shot of the dancers with their glowsticks in the air (as the camera zooms in and out) (10 sec)
• High angle shot of the dancers tapping on their glowsticks as they dance (10 sec)
• Tilt up of the camera from midshot of the dancers to the glowsticks (10 sec)
• Panning of the camera on the dancers with glowsticks (10 sec)
• Mid-shot of dancers while tapping with their glowsticks in the air. (10 sec)
• Midshot of dancers tapping their glowsticks in the air as they move their heads from side to side.
• Extreme close up of the dancers dancing with their hand up in the air (10 sec)

BRIDGE: WALKING SCENES:

• Long shot of artist walking through the streets on the right hand side of the frame
• Over the shoulder shot of character walking through street
• Mid-shot of artist walking through street (from waist down)
• Wide shot of people walking in the street (towards the camera)
• Midshot of people walking into the camera
• Extreme close up of head looking to her right (off camera)
• Mid-shot of people walking
• Out of focus shot of people walking
• Wide shot of camera focusing on the note in the street.
• Wide shot of the camera filming the street 

FINAL PARTY SCENES: LAST CHORUS

• Mid-shot of dancers with their hands in the air.
• Tilt up of the dancers standing in the crowd.
• Extreme close up of one of the dancers swaying their head to the beat.
• Mid-shot of the dancers dancing in the crowd as the camera moves downwards.
• High angle shot of dancers' shoes/faces.
• High angle shot of dancers looking into the camera and smiling.
• High angle shot of one of the dancers with hands up in the air.
• Wide shot of dancers jumping up and down.
• Mid-shot of two dancers dancing while one runs fingers through hair.
• Panning of the camera while dancers are dancing.
• Mid-shot of feet dancing away (from a high angle)
• Mid-shot of two dancers spinning to the music.
• Mid-shot of one dancer (looking away) as the other dancer jumps up and down and smiles at the camera.
• High angle shot of the dancers feet moving their legs out and in to the beat of the track.
• Mid-shot of the one dancer moving their head from side to side as other dancers stand behind them.
• High angle shot of dancers dancing in a line (from mouth down).
• PART 2:

• Mid-shot of character walking through the crowd. (10 seconds)
• Mid-shot of DJ walking through the crowd. (10 seconds)
• Mid-shot of character walking through the crowd & looking at the camera. (10 seconds)
• Mid-shot of DJ behind the character (as the character walks off camera) (10 seconds)
• Mid-shot of DJ tapping character on the shoulder. (10 seconds)
• Close up of DJ tapping character on the shoulder. (10 seconds)
• Mid-shot of character turning around. (10 seconds)
• Close up of character turning around. (10 seconds)
• Close up of DJ's mask. (10 seconds)
• Mid-shot of DJ & character standing together. (10 seconds)

PERFORMANCE:

• Mid-shot/long shot/close up of character singing the entire track behind a black screen.
• Close up of character's lips singing the entire track.
• Mid-shot/close up of character singing bridge behind a wooden wall.
• Close up of glowstick in character's hand.

Shooting Range!

Here I present to you the shot list that we made for our upcoming filming. This is mainly to keep us on track and organised! Of course we might add more shots along the way, but these are the basic ones to have!

• Lead sitting on bed, investigating notebooks / wide shot
• Lead using laptop, positioned to the right of the shot / close up
• Lead using laptop, positioned to the right of the shot / mid shot
• Laptop screen / close up

Contacting!

Claudia was very lovely and volunteered to contact all the actors and provide them with all the information needed so they could make our filming happen. Here are some of the screenshots that she took for proof!

Finally!

After being so horribly stressed out by editing the montage in the beginning of the video I am finally done with it, including all the sounds that go to the montage as well! Not next on the agenda is extracting the audio from our teacher strike footage and then we can move on to filming other parts of our video!

Behind the scenery!

Changes to be made!

When arranging our filming times we had come to the conclusion that a lot of it would either not make any sense or would be too difficult to actually accomplish, especially since none of us own a car to actually take our props anywhere and the tube or buses might be too risky with our expensive equipment. We have decided that we are going to film most of our video in our black box drama pod inside the college, we also changed a lot of the shots used, therefore I am posting this updated version of our animatic that I drew and stitched together!

Lit up Ball Lights!

Our lovely Claudia went to a shop today to look for extra lighting and whatnots for our music video. When she came back to us she reported seeing so many different and interesting lighting, she was basically dazzled by all the sparkles and glam! She did see a disco light ball and some strobe lights. Told us that hopefully she'll be able to get her hands on everything needed!

Agreeing to be our video test bunnies!

Just getting our actors does not put us in the clear, we have to get them so sign their souls over to us for the time being so we could legally film them. So we got our hands on the neat agreement forms and made our actors sign them with blood! .....well not really, but I was just going for dramatic impact haha!