The first day of filming

Today my group and I started filming for our final music video. We worked from about 3:30pm - 7:30pm and focused on interior shots. We were prepared and booked all the equipment that we needed (DLSR, Shoulder Mount and Tripod) and remembered what costumes were needed. 

We firstly filmed Elsie lip syncing to the whole song and made some lighting choices (making it quite dark to fit with the 'spooky story' feel). To achieve the lighting that we wanted, we turned all of the lights off and lit some candles, as well as using a torch under her face.

After this, we took some short close-ups of me lighting some candles which we did from a variety of angles (these will be used at the beginning of the music video). We then did some shots of the candles burning and then been blown out. We decided to do this as it will make the structure of our music video clearer with the candles being lit at the beginning of the music video and then showing them being blown out at the end  when the story is finished. 

We then filmed Laura and I lip syncing to the parts that we are singing to in the music video when we are shown to be teasing Elsie's character. However, we feel that we will need to film this again as the framing could have been better and we weren't always looking in the same direction. Also, we think that the lighting in the shot needs to be improved, however we will check if this can be altered during editing.

Here are some screen shots of what we worked on:

Here is what went well and what we could have done to improve:

What went well:

• Elsie's lip syncing was in time, the lighting went well with how we wanted it to look. We also filmed her lip syncing to the whole song, so this will come in handy when editing the video. (meaning that we have more footage than we need and will be able to use bits in our video whenever we feel that we need more lip syncing to be added).
• We also think that the candle shots turned out well, and the lighting also looked how we wanted it to be, to fit in with the feel of the song (and the 'spooky' story that the girl is telling').

What could have been improved/what we will do next time:

• Next time we know that we will have to make sure that the battery is charged, because it ran out quickly so we missed a lot of time that we could have spent filming. Because of this, we also learnt that we shouldn't leave the camera on when we are setting up the shots, as this wasted it's life a lot.
• Trying to steady the shots more is something that we should try and improve on, as when watching some of our clips back, we found that they weren't as steady as we thought they were. To improve this, we will try and use the tripod and webcam as much as we can, and try to avoid more handheld shots (apart from when we want it to look more shaky to fit with the 'spooky feeling').

UPDATE: We have decided that we were going to film more again next Wednesday, as well as Saturday next week, as we feel that we need the time to get all of the footage that we want.