Reflection : Week Eleven

This week we finished most of our filming and also started to edit. It was a fairly hetic week as all of us had a busy week with university applications and other plans, so fitting in a time we could all film was difficult. In the end, we sorted it out and the shooting day was pretty good.




We filmed last weekend in Hainault County Forest with the new artist, Naveed. This day went much better than the last, we were more efficient and got all the filming done within 3 hours. I think this was quite good as we had many shots to do and we also took some extra footage of the artist lip syncing to the song. Also on Monday, we filmed the shots in the tent with Simran and the cardboard person at home. When filming these, we realised that the lighting inside the tent wasn't as good as we would've have liked and as it was a translucent tent, you could different colours in the background that wouldn't have been associated with the forest. So we ended up re-filming these shots on the Thursday. The lighting was better as we dotted lamps around and also put a white blanket ontop of the tent so other colours were blocked out. I think our production process has being going quite well so far, we've filmed about 90% of it, we just need to film a few more shots on the train and in the station. 

Also this week, we started to edit the footage of the forest. We were using Final Cut, a programme we used to make our Thrift Shop Remake. At first, I had forgotten slightly exactly how to do things the quickest way, but eventually I got used to it and we had a productive session editing. 

One of the concepts we have been focusing on this week was Genre. When filming, it was important to remember that video was for an indie song. This made us more concious when filming the lip syncing shots, as we didn't want the artist to be looking at the camera, which is more typical in pop music video. Another concept we focused on was Audience. We made sure the shots we filmed had movement and also looked interesting. We wanted them to be interested through out the music video.