Shot list 1

This is our first shot list, we allocated different parts of the song to concept or performance, so that we roughly know what to film for which seconds.

Filming day 1

 Here are some photographs of us filming Paige on the day, this shows the projections on her.

Here is a photograph of Paige getting her shadow, from this point I then filmed at a certain angle so that you could only see the shadow and not see Paige which is the effect that we wanted to make.

This is our setting from a long shot, during filming we only used the screen to project images on, we used the sports hall as we were able to have it pitch black which meant that the projections stood out alot more when we filmed. Originally we were going to use the brick work to project the images onto but once we were set up the images looked so detailed and clear on the screen that we carried on our filming with the screen. This worked much better for us.         

We decided that while we had the opportunity we would take some photos of Paige posing as the artist, this worked very well as I own a Pentax SLR camera, we used all sorts of filters which looked very effective with the shadow and Paige in the same shot.

Practice filming

Here is some of the filming we did in the half term, Some bits worked really well and so we will be using them in our final video but some of them (as featured in this video) didn't work so well. We learnt alot and progressed through the day, but we also heavily planned what we would be doing but making sure we were prepared with many different projections to use.With the rest of our filming we know to use more angles, as in our practice filming and also in our projection setting we used alot of simple mid shot, this is due to the fact we wanted alot of emphasis on the actual projections and the fact that it looks artistic.
What we learnt from the filming is that certain projections don't work, such as busy shots (the sea) or dark shots (the lanterns). We still want the artist to be seen, and have performance shown and so because of this we could only use certain projections, the ones that worked best are the pink clouds and the light coloured sparkles. We found these most effective as they look good but you can also focus on the artist, we didn't want to distract from the fact that this is a music video.
We also learnt what looks good and what doesn't when it comes to the shadow shot. At first we wanted the shadow almost talking to the artist, after filming this a couple of times we figured it didn't look right, and so we made the artist walk into the shot as the shadow walks out. Below is what looks good compared to what looks bad. By making a clear comparison between what looks good and what looks bad we were able to learn what to put into our final video and what to not. With the filming we will be editing it very specifically to also make sure it looks good.

Costume 1

Our first day of filming we did the projection part of our music video. In this part of the video we wanted to get across the singer looking much more dressed up than in the other parts of the video but keeping with the vibe we wanted her to have.
In order to do this we put our actress Paige in a Bright Blue midi skirt, which is out of shot, and a long sleeved cropped top which is white with bright letters over it. We teamed this with a luminous yellow statement necklace and straight but slightly messy hair. We made this decision as the artist will be typically 'in a club' in this part of the video, as in the other parts she will be 'outside' and have a much messier but alternative look. This is her dressed up as if she is going out.

Peer assesment

Treatment- Presentation is really effective and clear. Every heading has a lot of detail. Probably could do with more target audience research.
Peer assesed by Frankie Sims
Lip synching- Your enthusiasm makes it more effective. The lip syncing is on point. Peer assessed by Frankie Sims
Goodwins theory- Good job but could do with a better description of what the theory actually is.
Peer assessed by Frankie Sims

Music video feedback-you should write how good this feed back is for your ideas and how it has helped you improve.

Peer assessed by Frankie Sims

Music video ideas- Ideas are really good, good inspirations; gives the audience a clear description of the idea your trying to put across.

Peer assessed by Frankie Sims

Production diary- Good job, detailed thorough description. make sure you don't write lots on one day and then just a sentence on another. keep it all detailed.

Peer assessed by Frankie Sims

Treatment

Lip syncing practice

When doing the lip syncing practise I learnt alot. I did it with my group member Paige, at first we filmed it together both singing out loud before we filmed Paige singing on her own singing out loud. Next was me, I didn't sing I just mimed and when it came to watching it back we realised that it worked better when miming as you can make it look alot more realistic. And so we re-filmed Paiges.This was helpful as now we know who is better to do the performance in our music video and also we now know not to film it singing, but miming instead. Over exaggerating looks much more realistic. By doing this we learnt what not to do and what to do in our filming of our music video.
Because we have a very upbeat song we also want to have artist interaction/dancing in our video, this will make it look more professional and also fit the conventions of a real music video.