Day2 of filming!!!

The aim of today was to fit in a social scene with Duane in the middle of a crowd looking depressed and down whilst the crowd was lively and upbeat also we wanted me in the scene as a ghost figure to show that he was thinking of me.

Numerous Problems occurred first the lighting didn’t exactly go to plan as we did have a lamp but the lighting somehow didn’t exactly register to the camera and it came out a bit too dark. Also with the amount of extras we had it was hard to fit everyone in the shot to have the effect that was desired. After the problems with lighting things got worse as we spent so much time getting the right shot of Duane, that we didn’t end up shooting my scene and it was decided to stop it there.
If I Could of changed anything I probably would have cut down on extras looked for a better location and planned the lighting in the room properly.

Day 1 of filming!!

Finally it was time to start filming we had our hearts set out to film at Crystal Palace Park as it had that rustic feel that we needed for our music video. It had been predicted that it would be a good and warm day which was perfect for filming.
I and Duane had ideas that we could incorporate in this scene. The aim of the scene was to have both protagonists in the park which shows a connection between both of them, in separate areas f the park they would bout have different positions but both reflect the same body language of heartbreak and regret.


First shot was of Duane sitting on the old step in the park singing the first verse if the song whilst filming we had noticed that it was a bit bland and decided to start of with an out of focus shot in the introduction of the song just to give that realistic effect. We had done this shot as a close up just so we could have a clear identification of his facial expressions. This shot was done numerous times as we wanted to have a choice of which one we were going to edit.

We had also done some shots where Duane was walking around the park we decided to shoot this in different angles to get different perspectives of his character as if we were on a journey with him. These shots included;

• Close ups
• Medium shots
• Long shots
• Point of view shots
• Over the shoulder shots
• Panning shots
• And of course following the 180 degrees rule

Our aim of his scene was to also get different shots from other locations in order for us to mix and match shots to create a collage of shots all to represent the same theme.

The next scene that we had done was my scene we weren’t going to shoot much of it as we wanted to change locations and time was against us. So we both decided to do a short walking sequence to start of my verse, things didn’t exactly go to plan as England’s weather proved unpredictable and it started to rain on us, as we were cold and wet we thought we should quickly shoot this scene and get it as precise as possible in order to finish quicker. We stuck with a medium shot and me walking towards the camera with a pan as I past it.

All in all I would say that this was a good start of our filming despite the weather and there was nothing that we would want to change as we had captured the effect that we had originally planned.

Melina Matsoukas

Melina Matsoukas

1. Michel Gondry- Music video director

Michel Gondry

Storyboard

These are the storyboards. Not only have we (Duane and Myself) drawn out the plan but i have also created an animatic version of the story board in order for us to experiance what the video would look like.

Target Audience

As our genre is quite mature we have decided to have our target market aged between 17+ (17-25) to be more specific, we think this was a good idea, as we know they would understand the music more than teenagers , as the lyric and the tempo are much more sombre .
We made a video as we invited two potencial target audience to be interviewed and also we conducted a survey on 27 people to figure what exactly they want in a music video and also asking them what kind of lifestyle they have in order to link the two.



Results of survey
We fund outthat a majority of our target audience were 18 and 21 and most of them listened to hip-hop music and also spent there time listening or participating in music or shopping.

Results of Survey

Lyric and lip sycing practice

When deciding how to make our lip-syncing accurate we wanted to try out two ways that would do this. Firstly we thought miming the lyrics was the easier option but it was obvious that we needed to know the lyrics inside out first.

We try out miming but it wasn’t as effect as the notes tended to stretch out we miming wouldn’t make t accurate so then we had chosen to sing along so we get the noted and it made it look much more natural. After trying out both strategies we came to the conclusion that we should just sign along with the song.