Filming the video.

It was our first day of filming, and we decided that the first scene that we should shoot was 'the balloon shot'. After setting up the set - (we stacked big black box's on one another, and put a sparkly glittery curtain over them to create an effect) and making sure that the spotlights were in the correct places and were the correct brightness. We also made sure the camera was in the correct position to make sure that when we started filming, the camera was the correct height and in the correct place. 


After this was done, we had a look at the 'You've got the Love' video to look at cues for when the balloons had to be released and what Paige, the person who was acting Florence had to do. After we had established this we then started to film.


We asked the help of a few people to lie on the floor holding the balloons (carefully making sure that they weren't in the shot) and used the overhead projector in the drama studio so that they could watch the actual Florence and the Machine video so that they knew when they had to let go.


We started to film this scene, and we took a few takes. The plan was to take as many as we could, and then look over them after when we went onto the Mac computers to see which ones we did and didn't like and also see which ones needed the most amount of editing. Some of them we have to edit and crop out bits because the camera got tilted up too high and you could see the top of the ceiling with something that was on top of the drama studio. 


After we had done a few takes of this scene, we decided to do another scene that we thought was going to be a challenge.We thought that the first scene, which lasts about 17 seconds was going to be difficult to do. The difficulty's with this shot were the fact that it was a continuous shot, so everything had to be perfect in it. We started out with only a spotlight behind our Florence re-in actor, and as her face turned to the camera, we made a spotlight slowly come on.


After that, we had to make sure that she turned her head back to the side, raised her arm to the sky. The spotlight then had to dim at the correct time. We also wanted to make sure that she was mouthing the words in time to the music, so that it looked realistic. 


We did encounter some problems with filming, mainly the fact that we had to use the school drama studio to shoot our video, and it wasn't always available when we needed for various reasons. This did sometimes make it very difficult to get all of the shots that we needed in order to make a decent version of the video. However, with our video, quite a lot of the shots are the same, so we made an executive decision to use some of the shots twice. We thought that this would mean that we didn't have to have any issues with filming, however we did notice that the lip syncing wasn't right and also in places it looked very  jumpy.


We did try to edit our piece to the best of our ability. Seeing as it was a preliminary task, we used this experience as a learning curve on what she could do better next time and when we have to make our actual music video.