Filming- Day 2

Day 2 of filming.
Today we set up a black background to fit conventions and we filmed the first scene of our singing.
Our actor wore a black and white checkered dress to fit with the indie style of our video.
We filmed it from many different angles so we can cut and chop to make it look more flowing, and to use more different shots in the video to make it look more professional.
We also took photos of her in the dress to see how it would look for our poster.

Filming- Day 1

Today Me, Jenny and Sophia started our filming.
We wanted to do the filming in order of our music video so we began at the beginning.
The narrative on the field.
We filmed on quite a frosty morning so with the sun out and the frost on the grass, it looked quite good.
We used the following props to go into our video; a easel, a paint bucket, a canvas and a heart shaped ballon- this is all to fit in with our song and lyrics.
We have started to download our footage on the computer and have started to edit it.
Next time we are going to start filming the singing footage, in school and in someone's house.
We're going to film it many times in different angles, so when we go to put it in our video as the final footage we have lots of angles to decide from.

Album Cover.

For our front album cover we have used a picture of an easal which we took from our first location shot.
We have challenged the conventions by not using the artist on the front of the cover.
We didn't use the possible photo's below due to the lightening from outside and when making it into a square for a album cover it didn't look right.

Contact Sheet; Possible Photo's for Album.

Originally we wanted a album cover with the artist on, we were going to follow some of the conventions of our genre by having her outside. However it was sunny that day, and well everyday we tried to take photo's, and the lighting just really didn't work and caused shadows in loads of places.
Below are the pictures we took to try get that picture we we're aiming for, but as you can see the way the sun was it caused shadows on her face and on the ground, so they couldn't be used.

Location shots for second scene.

For our second scene we are going to use a location in someone's house. We were going to do this in a living room however we may now change it so the lighting is better. But we haven't tried it with our actor actually filming yet, so we don't know the outcome of what it will look like. We need to try it first, then decide wether to have it in a house or in front of a simple background, so we can control the lighting more.



Location Shots Scene 2 & 3

Practice scarf animation

This was what we did once we did our feet animation, i'd seen it done in a video once and it looked really cool so we tried it and i think it works quite well, although the camera isnt very still at all times so it is a bit shaky in parts.

Practice feet animation 2

Practice stop motion animation take 2 of shoes, third try at animation. This worked better as we used very small movements every time we took a photo.