FILMING 1.

We have now started filming properly. We wrote a quick note to what we wanted to achieve in the whole lesson. We wanted to take 3 or 4 different shots to get as much footage as we possibly can. We picked up a video camera and a tripod and went outside onto the apple orchard and took some simple shots. First of all we experimented with a shot with symmetry. Charley ran down tot he bottom of the orchard and i set the camera up where the shot shows the trees coming out from either side of the frame. She put the song "Ghosts" on her phone. she walked up slowly singing the song. Our teacher told us to only film simple shots and dont do anything to complex yet. Therefore we only filmed the first verse because we wanted to see how it worked and if we could use it for our fimling. This worked well. We then tried a close up shot of her singing the whole song. This also worked well as it was a simple shot that we could use throughout the music video. This shot was similar to the shots that we saw in Clean white love. I find that in the music video, they worked really well because it showed the emotions of the actor as we are so close to them. It also shows the faciall expression which will also determine the mood of the video. We then went a little further and sat Charley into a tree . The camera was then set to the tree and her being the only objects in focus and the camera then filmed her singing the lyrics. I was very happy with this footage as it was a detailed and interesting shoot to look at. We will have to crop it however, because part of the tennis courts are in the shoot and we want the focus to be aimed at Charley. We will crop it so that the camera is more zoomed in on her, leaving out all the important parts. We then had to come inside because it started to rain and we were not longer film. One, because the camera would get wet, and for two, the video would be ruined. Therefore we came inside a\nd uploaded the footage. We uploaded the footage and then looked over it. As we looked at the footage and analysed what we could use. We found that the tree was a good shot but we could only use the shot in certain pieces of the video as it is quite a techniqual shot and it couldnt be merged together to make the video constant.

We then decided it was time to film some more footage, unlike the lesson before we were more prepared and knew what we needed to do. So when the classroom was emptied we set up the sames shots that we had done the previous lesson and filmed the mid shot of Charley singing and looking out of the window. We had to do this a few times as the first time, charley wasnt looking at the camera very much and it wasnt a good look. therefore we shot it again with her looking at the camera more often and showing her emotions it was a little bit touching !!! We continued experimenting with different shots including a close up of a book that she was holding. We tried pull focus again on the book and it worked well. The colours are also a big part of the shot as it needs to be interesting. Therefore she wore blue tights and a hat as it is winter outside. The book was red and it clashed with the colours of the outside which was a combination of orange and browna nd blue and then the wall inside which was plain cream. This worked well. We then took some narrative shots of Charley looking out of the window so that we could have some different shots. We then uploaded the footage and looked through the different shots. We realised that Charley was slightly out of focus when looking on the bigger screen. Therefore next lesson we will film again and ensure that everything is set up correctly.