Response to Video Idea

To Natasha D,
That's deep! But a really good idea because I do think that our video is missing something fun and cute like that. I'll buy a few packs for our next filming session.


Natasha M

Music video idea:

Hey Tash M,


I was thinking... seeing as our theme of the video is on love and the song is called "Kiss n Tell", i thought that near the end of the video, we could have different cuts of the artist and the "guy" that the artist is interrogating. I thought that to make the video light hearted we could have a shot of you force feeding the guy lips sweets with the use of quick close up shots.


The sweets could represent the lies that the guy has been feeding the artist and she is making him eat his "lies"back. Also, through researching other pop videos, they use jump cuts with close up shots, such as the maroon 5 video, "Misery", which sees intimacy between the singer and the girlfriend through much more sexual references. However, this would not be appropriate due to the target audience being 14 - 19 year olds.


What do you think?


Tash D

Filming The Chorus

I think this was a successful session, we spent about 2 and a half hours filming and we got most of the shots that we needed. However, I think we might need to film a bit more as we don't have enough different material as we were in a rush because we had to give back the props to the different departments before they went home.


Once we have uploaded the filming onto the timeline, we can see how much we have and how much extra we need if we do.

Filming List for Chorus

Date to film: Monday 7th February
Time: 3:25pm onwards...
People needed: ALL OF GROUP
Location: Should be drama room but I have found that it will be busy but we need to get on with filming so I've found that the hall is open for us and just as good.


Props/Items we need to take:
- Video Camera
- Tape for camera
- iPod (make sure it's charged)
- iPod dock
- Costume! (heels and RED flower for hair)
- Stage (this is portable, not using the main stage as it's too big)
- Mic stand + Mic (I'll get this from music dept.)
- Fan + extension cord


Shots to be filmed:
- Close up
- Medium shot
- Wide shot
- Singing to camera
- Singing to audience
- Pan shot
- Shot of 'rocking out'
- Shot of laying on floor singing
- Shots of walking around stage whilst singing
- Shots of coming out of the curtain
- Extra shots incase extra footage is needed

Filming:

Yesterday, the group decided to film the bridge of the song "Kiss N Tell". We decided to change location from the drama studios to the school hall in order to move our filming date closer. This section of the song is solely focused on the artist, therefore, the camera work was made to be intimate with the artist with low angle shots, close up shots etc.

Also, there was the need for lots of equipment that we had to carry around everywhere:

 - A Large Fan
 - Ipod speakers/Ipod
 - Tripod/Camera
 - Lots of electric cables

We are now currently uploading the footage that we have taken so far such as the bridge and the very beginning of our song. We are doing this because of the problems that we faced with uploading our preliminary footage a few weeks ago, where we thought we lost our footage because we did not upload our footage as soon as we filmed.

Filming List for Bridge

Date to film: Thursday 3rd February
Time: 2:25pm onwards...
People needed: ALL OF GROUP
Location: I found that drama rooms were busy so I've booked the hall so we can use the back stage which is similar to our old location.

Props/Items we need to take:

- Costume (rock n roll shirt)

- Fan + extension cord

- Video camera

- Tripod

- iPod (make sure it's charged!)

- iPod dock

- Tape for camera

Shots to be filmed:
- Intimate close ups with the camera
- Semi-circle dolly
- Medium shot of singing to camera
- Shot of spinning (to insert in bits of the video)
- Close up from the right
- Singing whilst half dancing
- Extra shots incase extra footage is needed

Problems with filming:

At the moment, the group are having the difficult problem of finding time to shoot long lengths for the music video. We have all the costumes ready and know exactly where we are shooting the different sections of the video. However, the problem we are currently facing is the location for the main narrative of the video. We are planning to set it in the drama studios, but are frequently occupied by other people. Therefore, we are having to change our plans often which is an aspect i will have to discuss with my partner.