We arrived at the set which we had already built on the day before. We were checking if our lighting was appropriate to our pop-video and explained to our actress what she will have to do, what she will have to wear etc. Very important was the setting up of camera one which would not move during the whole music video. We set it up in the middle so the shot would capture the action form a frontal position. We had to make sure that nobody during the whole shoot would move this camera otherwise the jump cut effect that we were panning on doing later in editing would not work. Our set was a blue room whit two yellow doors on each side. We decided not to fill the room with props etc because we wanted to put the focus on the artist. However we had to be careful interns of continuity problems. After approximately 35 seconds we were planning on throwing paint against the walls so we had to make sure that before we shot this scene that we had all our shots without the paint at the wall.
After we set up the little blonds at the top of the studio we tried to avoid shadows, however this was very hard to do because we did not have enough fill lights. Then we set up our cameras (Z……). We did not have to role the tape over etc. because we had the comfort of shooting digitally. We adjusted the shutter-speed, frame rate- exposure, focus etc.
I was responsible for camera 2 which would get close-ups of the artist or cut aways which we would use to reduce the shoot length later in editing. The average shot length in a music video is about 3 seconds. We break this convention at some point in order to show that our artist is different. I chose camera positions and angles however we did not have any tracking shots in this video because it would not suit the style we were trying to achieve.
I also tried to tell our actress how "flirt" with the camera and helped her to understand the main objective of the pop video. We divided the work in separate part. One group member was responsible for the dresses (costume designer), the other one was responsible for the playback.
Then there was the set change. Because we layered our pop-video we needed to change the set. The footage we had shot it set number 1 would be projected on a green screen later in the editing process. Set 2 consider out of a blue screen and red cinema chairs which we had order from a specialist shop. This is all one shot however it took nearly as long as the actual pop-video shoot. We told our artist what to do and how to behave. Then we placed her on one of the chairs and lit her and the green screen properly. It is very important when shooting a green screen that it is lit equally and that the artist does not wear anything that contains green as a colour. There are many ways of determining this. We looked through a darkened piece of glade which helped us to see variable slightly better. The simplest method to use here is to rely on the exposure zebras in the view finder. It was very important that we would maintaining the value of the light corma key. the lighting should enhance the colour green which makes it then easier to key the green elements out later in post-production.
One major issue which hew had to overcome was that
our shooting day was at the same day as our two artists and my math exam so we had to work around this. We started shooting 2 hours late due to the given circumstances. We had to make sure that everything was carefully planned and ready to work with out any mistakes. I relied in this case on my two other group members and that they would use the 2 hours of "spare time" productively, which the did. Because we planned everything in such great detail we were able to stick to our timeline and story board which enabled us to work fast and precisely.
However we sometimes got confused because our pop-video did not have a clear narrative, but we were able to look up structure, shot types etc in our call-sheet.
Even we planned everything carefully our intention of no mistakes and no arguments was not fully met. I was suggesting little changes and new ideas which created a little argument within the group, however we overcame this problem by just trying these new ideas out after we shot our main footage.
Also one major problem was that visitor that came to watch the performance had accidentally moved our camera 1 which was supposed to remain in the exact same position through out the whole day. We tried to create the exact frame as the original however there are still slight differences which we have to change in post production.
One shot that really worked was when our artist crawls on the floor. She craws toward the camera from the right of the frame to the left. This low angle shot puts her in a superior and mysterious position. She also crawls form right to left which indicates some sort of edginess, difference in terms on norms etc. Through the use of this shot the audience is introduced to the fact she is different and extraordinary.
Another shot that worked well was when our artist is dancing the shot tilts up her body which puts focus on her body and slightly objectives her and puts foes on her female characteristics. The shot is shot really tightly and we cut to a wide directly after this. Which show the whole image of the artist.
One shot that did not work was when we filmed
the colour splashing against the wall. Because the colour dies not splashed the way we want it i to splash against the wall we had to take separated shots one where the drum with the colour on time is hit and another clasp of colour hitting the wall. We realized later that the colour does not hit the wall in the right angle.
All in all our shooting day went well. We had to overcome problems and mistakes but because we planned everything carefully we were able to cope with this difficulties. I do no think that our pop-video is appropriate for a mass audience and has to be seen with different eyes. it was not an easy idea and maybe we would have done better if we would have chosen a more conventional idea. But we set us this challenge at did very well.
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