Filming day 2

This is our first setting, here we filmed the intro and also a lot for the end shots. It was a good day and so we did a pan shot from the bright blue sky to the setting to slowly establish the setting and what she is doing. Putting Paiges hair in a bandana it makes her look more alternative and it is also good for when we first establish her as you can clearly see her face. We also used Doc martens, high black socks and a baggy shirt. This is because we wanted to take inspiration from the 'Skins' character 'Effy'.

This was our second setting of the day, it is a bridge over a A-road. At first it looked good but once we started filming we didn't like the shots as we felt like they were very typical and not very interesting. This outfit look is cut out boots with frilly socks, high waisted shorts, a T-shirt and a messy pony tail which has a hair cuff and also a hair chain in it. We felt like this went well with our artist as we were keeping it alternative.

Setting 3 is at 'south weald' it is a brick staircase which is very rustic. We kept the outfit the same as the second setting but we decided to put her hair down to change it up and keep the shots different.

Settings

These are photos of some of our settings, we did research on google maps and Google to see the location before we went there.  The last shot is of our set-up for the projection shots.

Costume inspiration

Costume inspiration

Here you can see some of our costume inspiration from celebrities and fashion icons. We wanted to go with a funky urban vibe but keep it fashionable instead of messy and plain. To do this we will mix colours and textures, including shirts and socks and lace.

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.