Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Diary of Filming

Basis of storyline
Our storyline shows flash blacks when the black and white scenes are shown of the main actor’s child hood showing that he is still a player with the same three girls from when he was little. It also shows his frustration about it. We have used the lyrics “Music made a man of me” is hinting that he should become a man and not mess about with girls any longer. Also with the lyrics in the song “Travelling through life” this idea of him going back in time reflects this belief.

Diary

Day 1 of filming -October
The first day we filmed we decided to start with the beginning of the video by filming shots of the actors getting ready for example putting on make up, brushing teeth, putting on items of clothing this shows the beginning of the day. We also videoed shots from inside a car showing cars driving fast, speed landscapes we did this because from the lyrics the song is about travelling through life.


Day 2 of filming -October
In day 2 of filming we just needed some car shots to fit in with the story of travelling through life, so we filmed shots of outside of the car whilst the car was moving and also shots of the main actors feet changing gears and accelerating to show that they are getting faster. The other thing which we filmed was the moon as we needed this for the end of the video when the day has ended.


Day 3 of filming -October
In day 3 of filming we filmed such things as the main actor brushing his teeth as we needed this for the start if the video, we filmed him in a mirror shot brushing his teeth and then washing his hands while he splashes water up we thought this was quite a good effect. The other thing which we filmed was over the shoulder and point of view shots of some of the girl actors texting the main actor.


Day 4 of filming -October
On day 4 we did more car shots, with Hall walking out the house and walking towards the car, we also done more car shots day and night while we had access to the camera to make use encase to get more options of footage to use. At the end of the video he picks one girl so we decided to film the girl and ‘Lucas’ in a café talking and laughing.


Day 5 of filming -October
Day 5 we went to a car park that overlooks the beach, we filmed things such as one of the girl actors and the main actor kissing with the sea in the background on the edge of a cliff and also sitting on the edge of the hill with the lighthouse in the background we thought this was quite a good location as we tried to vary as many locations as we could, we also did some performance shots when it got dark in the grass in the middle of the road on the sea front we had the microphone with him singing and the cars going past. We also waited until the sunset and filmed that behind some houses. The final thing we filmed on day 5 was cars and buses going past on the road we did this to again show travelling.


Day 6 of filming -October
On day 6 we filmed some more car shots as the first ones weren’t that successful, we filmed things such as turning the sound of the radio up and down, as the song is about music, we also filmed the speed o’meter which shows the rapid increase in speed, also things such as traffic lights a we wanted to capture the red light when the music says stop. We attempted to film silhouettes in the dark by shining car headlights on people and dancing in front of the headlights, this wasn’t going very well so we decided to do this again on another night with more people as we thought it would be more successful.


Day 7 of filming -October
On the 7th day we filmed ‘Lucas’ singing playing an acoustic guitar indoors, we thought this was a good idea because of the amount of lights in the room that would focus on him as the room had spotlights and a white background, this option was not successful at when we seen the uploaded images it did not look as professional as we thought it would.
We tried filming the car lights again trying to get silhouettes using people dancing in front of headlights and cars flashing around. However like the first time the lighting wasn’t right so we didn’t end up using this footage in the video.


Day 8 of filming -October

On the 8th day we went to the beach again and filmed landscape shots of the beach these weren’t used in the video as the lighting bad as it was starting to get dark, we also filmed one of the girl actors and ‘Lucas’ walking along the beach and another girl actor writing ‘Nicola loves Lucas’ in the sand then Lucas kicking it away like he didn’t care about her as much as she cares about him. We did many shots like this from different angles as it was an important scene in the video therefore we wanted it to go well, although this was a quite rushed shooting as it was getting dark very quickly therefore we didn’t have a lot of time it went quite well.


Day 9 of filming -October
We needed footage of the younger children as the actors in their childhood and we thought the park was a good location that matched the look of young children and fun memories. We filmed them on the swings together, riding a bike, sliding down slides, random objects, and laughing generally playing around with leaves etc. In the park there was a nice scenic area with large rocks and steps were we thought was suitable to film for a performance shot, we filmed Daniel (younger Lucas) and Hall (Lucas) sitting in the same position singing the whole song a few times so we could get different angles, we sat them in the same spot and kept the camera in the same position while filming each angle. In the end we didn’t use these performance shots because the ending idea of Daniel turning into Hall seemed a better to just use that at the end and not involve the same shot anywhere throughout the video.


Day 10 of filming -October
On the 10th day of filming we were in school and used the main hall to do some performance shots, as there was a black background, we filmed from many angles of him singing the song a few times. We then thought the hall would look better if there was an actual audience watching him so we went up to the 6th form common room and asked our peers to come down to the hall and act as an audience, we filmed them cheering, clapping and jumping up from behind them, their faces and from a few angles to get a variety of clips.

Day 11 of filming -October
On day 11 we filmed Hall in his room again using editing to make an effect of him lying in different positions over a long amount of time by keeping the camera in the same position and getting him to move around different parts of the bed. We also filmed him on his bed playing the guitar, we tried to get a home effect by using this idea, this was to use in the instrumentals as there is a strong guitar base used in the song. We also redone the fridge shot as the one before was dull and not steady. We also filmed more indoor shots of Hall playing the guitar from all different angles matching the string audio of the actual song for the instrumentals, this footage was not successful as the setting was not appropriate as It didn’t look professional from the feedback we could use a different setting and agreed with this comment. We did not put the guitar shots into the overall video because we thought the main singer looked better without.


Day 12 of filming -October
This was our last day if filming before the rough cut and we had one blank spot which needed to be filled so we filmed one of the girl actors Nicola, stroking a computer screen as there was a picture of Lucas on the screen, we knew we wouldn’t use this clip but needed to use it to fill in a gap in the rough cut, we tried to film this a few times from a few different angles but knew it wasn’t a shot we would be using in the final video.


Day 13 of filming -November
On the 13th day we filmed inside a house, we did bedroom shots of Holly the main actor girl with ‘Lucas’ having a laugh in the bedroom, then we filmed the other two girls knocking on his door it shows him going down the stairs to answer the door to the both of them and slamming the door in their faces. We then filmed Holly and ‘Lucas’ having a dramatic argument about the situation resulting in holly slapping Lucas. After this shot has ended we have filmed Holly holding pictures of Lucas and crying also shots of her going to sleep with him next to her but when she turns around he isn’t there. We then filmed Nicola and Lucas at the metro station where Lucas meets Nicola off the metro.

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