The end of Filming...Again

Today, we are hoping, will be the last day we go out filming. We did originally think we had all our filming done two weeks ago, however complications arose and we are now going out again today. The weather looks perfect, with the sun out and not a cloud in the sky. We hope to be getting the river scene again today swell as a lot of the filming within the forest. As last time we ran out of light, we are going out earlier today, in precisely 20 minutes, so hopefully we will return with all the footage we need. Here are a couple snap shots from the filming we obtained:

  We, rather unplanned, gained quite a few shots with the sun creating a sort mysterious casting to our main character. I really like this particular shot as the audience are unable to see the girls face, which is a common theme throughout our entire video, with her face always being hidden, to give the video an overall undertone of mystery to it.

 Again this shot shows how effective lighting can be when filming outside, in natural scenes. I particularly love the glares in which the sun causes on the camera, creating perfect diagonal lines to revert our attention to different sections within the frame.

Last day of filming

We went on our last day of filming recently, we hope, and here are a few pictures of what we had to do in preparation on the day. Due to the fact that we are including a hinted modern day witch hunt within our video we decided that we should include our own witch craft symbol, as to not offend any religious groups. 

The symbol is placed subtly within our music video, on places such as trees and her body, to hint further to the fact that our protagonist is a witch. 

The overall result of the filming went well, however we didn't anticipate it to become as dark as did did as early as it did. So we ran out of light towards the end of the shoot. Hopefully we will have gained all the footage we needed however if we do need to go back out to film, then we can and will have to do so as soon as possible.

Filming Round 2

We went filming recently, to shoot the scene in which we are first introduced to another character in the narrative. The filming went well and the weather was really good, we were very lucky with the lighting as the sun is placed in the right hand corner of the screen, giving the diagonal lines of sun rays across the shot.

Here is just a general shot we got, with a bit of landscape in the background, with a shot of the balcony in foreground. However we used depth of field to place the foreground out of focus, as we felt the background suited the feel to our music video more.

This was a quick spare of the moment shot, which I thought, the freedom of the birds, can reflect the girl within our music video, and how she is constantly running, attempting to be free.






The following two shots are just a small example of how we are going to show the contrasting split personality of our protagonist. The light blue jumper shows a happier self.

                                                                              

Where as the dark stripy jumper and the fact that, when zoomed out and we are able to see her full body, it looks as if she is only wearing the jumper, thus giving her that provocative look. This therefore juxtaposes the cute skirt and bright blue jumper look in the previous shot.

Here is yet another shot of the landscape around where we filmed, its peaceful and on this particular shot we have used no effects, and altered nothing. This just shows how lucky we were to have such good weather on the day.

First day of filming

We have already started to film our first location for our music video. We started in the forest as this is the first location we use, apart from the warehouse which we still have not been able to find yet, in our music video. Therefore we thought logically and went in chronological order of filming. We did manage to do a quick vlog whilst filming, which can be viewed below.

Filming

As we have finished our story baording, which took longer than planned, we are now looking to start as soon as possible. Our first round of filimg should be this sunday, so that we can get back and do some editing when we come bcak after half term. We are hoping to do the sections within the forest, if the weather is okay, because we have quite a few shots filmed there. It will be a bit of a challege due to the costume and make up changes we are trying to include, but we do love a good challenge so we will just have to see how it goes.