Filming day 4

Fortunately, Alex our friend agreed to being in our music video playing the boy role. We all arranged that today after school we are going to film the final session for our music video. We had a good few hours before it got dark so that we could make the most of natural light. At first we took some shots of Niamh and Alex on opposite sides of a door from high angle shots. During editing, we want to put the two clips together of them two arguing into a diagonal split screen, however we're not sure how we're going to do this as it requires a template.

Next we filmed Niamh and Alex's characters 'being in love', we just filmed them on the couch from various different angles to show how at that point in time they were in love. We will use this footage as a flash back as to how happy they were before.

Another bonus was that one of Rae's friends let us borrow her gay pride flag, we used this during the clips of Niamh and Rae's characters being loved up together. We thought by using the flag, the narrative of our music video will become much clearer and our target audience will understand our concept more. I used the shoulder mount to film the footage, the natural light also worked well as it gives off a optimistic feel showing how Niamh's character feels when she's with Rae's character.

After this, we had to then improvise for the party scene, the lighting in my house worked in our favor because the light focused on Niamh whilst she was drinking. Niamh wasn't actually drinking wine, I found a old empty wine bottle which we filled with orange cordial to make it look more realistic. Myself and Alex were in the background shot to make the scene look like there were more people there. When editing, I think we are going to try and blur the background of me and Alex out a little bit so that the clip is focused on Niamh's character.

We decided to film the parts of Niamh and Alex when they're no longer in love when it had gotten dark outside. This was so that the lighting fitted the mood. We used tripod shots of Niamh and Alex sitting away from each other on the couch to show there is some distance. We were also struggling on how to portray the fact that Niamh's character is gay, so we came up with the idea that Alex tries to comfort her, then she storms off and Alex then pulls out the gay pride flag out under the pillow to symbolize that he now knows that she has feelings for another girl.

Filming day 3

Today we arranged to film at my house again, and this time we actually got a lot done. We made a list of what we wanted to get done but we used the shot list to help us. It did take us all day, but we got a lot of footage. Here I made an overview of our day filming and included some pictures. Hopefully, we only need one more day to film then we should have everything done.

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easel.ly

Filming day 2

Today our group arranged to meet at my house at 12 to film more of our music video. We created a list to give structure to our day. We decided that first we would do a photo shoot because we need photos to personalize our website and photos to use for the CD cover and booklet. We managed to take some good photos using my pink wall as a continuous background. The photos we think fit our genre of 'pop' as they are girly and fun, this can also be applied to our target audience. Once we had taken enough photos, we moved onto the next thing on our list of filming Niamh lip syncing the whole song again at a different angle and with a change of outfit which will be useful for when cutting the song up.  However, we had to stop filming because the SD card had run out of storage and nothing could be deleted. When the SD card was read by Niamh's computer we figured out that for some reason each photo had duplicated itself. Therefore, we are going to film again on Friday and hope that we get the majority of the filming done.

Filming day 1