Construction Post 2: Music Video Production Part 2

In the latter part of the week we had performance shots and the big group scenes planned, so this was going to be very time consuming and important for us.

Day 4 - 18th November

On this day, we chose to film our performance shots, as Shayam would not be there since she had other commitments.  For this, we chose to film Mario singing the song from different angles, we planned to use these shots as cutaway footage during the group scenes. They were also useful as after showing the rough edit to some people in our target audience, quite a few of them said that we should have had more close ups of the artist. The filming process went quite smoothly as we used Eddie's 600d camera as well as the school's 5d camera to film from different angles at the same time, speeding things up.

600d and 5d footage was taken at the same time

Day 5 - 19th November

This day was the most intensive shoot for the group. On this day we had the orange, purple and black scenes planned, which all involved large groups of actors. We shot the glow in the dark scene during lunch, as this was when we could get the most actors on set. We initially planned to use UV paint, however when we tested it, it didn't show up well on camera. Instead, we made the main focal point of the scene the glow sticks. This worked out well, since we had enough to make sure everyone was adequately decorated and to create a visually interesting scene.

We then used the time during our media lesson to shoot the new year's (purple) scene, we used people from our media class and others who were free at the time to fill the scene. We had to get quite a lot of different shots in this scene, so we overran a bit, but this wasn't a major problem. We were able to get a variety of shots, some which we thought of in the heat of the moment.

After school, we then shifted our focus to the party (orange) scene. We chose to include a lot more people in this scene, because after showing the rough edit to our target audience focus group, many people said the scene felt empty, with not enough going on. We managed to get all of the necessary footage, finishing on time. However, there were some scenes in which we could have some more alternative shots, so we might be able to benefit from one more shoot.

Day 6 - 20th November

On the final day of our shoot week, it was a lot less rigorous, since we used the day to re-shoot footage we thought could have been done better. Using the morning to go over the footage, we used the time we had at lunch to re-shoot, which didn't take very long. Below is the type of shot we were getting on the day, it was just a few shots that involved Shayam.