For the narrative scene in the park we would need:
- Cara Hammond- Cara
- Nathan Edwards-Boy
- Dan Thomas-Boys Friend
- Luke Thomas-Boys Friend
- Joe Maddocks-Boys Friend
- Charlotte Jones-The Other Girl Friend
Cara helped get us the actors as most of them were her friends and people from her drama club. The original girl was going to be played by Laura, but she couldn't make it so luckily Cara's friend Charlotte was willing to p[lay it.
We set the Jib Arm up first and loaded the laptop up that would be playing the sound. I brought some mini speakers so the song could be heard on set. This was used to help us synch up and get keep the lyrics and timing correct.
The first scene we filmed was the moving scene with the Steadicam, this took a while to do as the public and lots of dog walkers kept creeping into the shot. When we had a chance, as I was on Camera and The Director of Photography I filmed behind Cara keeping her in focus by keeping her in the focal distance and having auto focus on. Luke would follow us with the laptop playing the song, while Cara played and sang. Luke signalled Leon as we past a certain point and then the other actors would move into position.
We went through this scene a few times and on the last one, me and Luke decided i would follow Cara as she goes through Nathan and his friends, follow Cara and as she turns around to face the camera, move backwards and around the friends as Cara is moving me backwards. This shot looked really nice so we kept it and used it in the final film. Although most of it will be used for the projection shot.
The other interesting shots that we had planned for the shoot were the moving shot following Cara and Nathan down a path, the whip pan and the circling shot around "The Stone Henge".
The Jib shot moving down the path worked really well with the Charlotte waving in front.
and the reveal and whip pan also looked good. we chose not to make Nathan and Charlotte kiss as we thought it would be very awkward for them.
For the Whip pan I waited after Cara had been revealed and then when she nodded I quickly panned it right. Then on the next shot in the park with them on the swings I panned it right till they were centre frame. This took a few attempts to get it right.
The Stone Henge shot went worked well as I own the Steadicam I am now comfortable with the equipment. The Steadicam proved to be a good piece of equipment to use to keep the movement flowing in the shots.
After Filming in all the locations:
- The Bench
- Path way
- Oriental Garden
- Stone Henge
- Park-swings
We finished filming the narrative at 4:30 pm and then we had to head home and quickly edit the footage we were going to be using later that day as projection shots onto the band and their equipment.
Luke Edited the two scenes we would be using and colour graded them enhancing the colours and levels making them brighter and more vibrant. I asked him to do this as it would show up better on the wall as it was going to be projected from the projector.
We arrived at the Warehouse at 6:10 pm and would be meeting the Band Vesper at 6:30. We hoped we had enough time to set up the equipment, cameras and lights. We got arrived and had to clear a space in the warehouse which took us back an hour and the band arrived and started setting up their equipment as we did.
Luke had planned the lighting design similar to the one McFly set up we had liked the look of.
We set up and started filming at 8:00 pm.
The lights were set up, the projector was set up and I had set up three Canon 550D Cameras. One on a tripod, one on the Jib Arm and our own on the Steadicam. I set them to all the same settings. They all had the same white balance but our one was set to cine-style but both University cameras didn't have it, so we set them to faithful. What we should have done was set all of them to faithful so they would have been easier to edit them in post. Luckily they weren't to bad to colour grade.
We didn't have a story board for the band scenes, we just had a shot list.
Sweeping shot of band.
Cara move with camera (Sway and follows the camera).
Cara dancing.
Close ups of Base Guitar, Guitar and Drums.
Different angles and lots of movement.
Glitter on drums and smoke machine. Glitter to be thrown in second chorus and third chorus.
Projection onto band or floor.
Most of the shots were thought up and filmed on the spot depending on what looked good. The first scene we filmed was the hardest one as it had to be timed perfectly with the projection and the song that was being played for Cara to lip synch, as well as Cara singing at the right pace and time. The camera (Steadicam shot) would track back from the projection on the wall, to the band in one smooth movement, while making sure everything is at the right time.
We had problems with not being able to see the projection on the band or floor as the lights were to bright and the smoke from the smoke machine blocked the image.
The smoke machine brought out the lights more and turned up the look of the music video. The Steadicam shots worked really well and added more energy and motion to the video.
The glitter really came out and looked better than we thought, especially as it passed the lights, that was a nice touch. The one scene where glitter burst on to the screen, we did that by getting everyone who wasn't in the shot to throw handfuls of glitter around me, i got covered but it was a really good shot. We performed tracking moves and booming moves using the Jib, these also looked good.
For the Last scene with Nathan and Cara we threw a white sheet over a wooden box and lit it to create a make shift background, although it wasn't completely white, we would be able to change it in post.
We finished the shoot at 0:00 am.
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