Wednesday, 6 November 2013
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.
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Ellie
ReplyDeleteAn excellent first day of filming, this looks great. Useful still shots of settings and the first day of filming; I like the "good/ bad" examples.
Next, aim to develop your explanation and evaluation a little further. Link your comments back to your plans/ audience/ genre. Make clear why you were using each of the effects you created in the sports hall and then evaluate how successful they were/ how they show progress/ what you have learnt. In places, you seem to follow conventions and in other places you seem to challenge them - this is great, even greater if you explain how and why!
Mr A
We used different backgrounds to show how she was feeling. For example the pink clouds show that she is 'on cloud nine' and the sparkles is how she feels too, she feels all magical etc. We then challenged it more by using fire, showing the darker side of love. From this I have learnt a lot about technology, especially how lighting effects everything majorly. For example when filming Paiges shadow we had to place the light very precisely and also have me at a certain angle where you wouldn't see my shadow or Paige's body. The lighter projections worked better than the darker projections as we could see Paige more, being a performance shot we wanted to make her clear and stand out of the projections not be masked by them.
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