Where did you go and what did you achieve?
Today, we filmed in the Drama Studio within the school, and we planned on filming the first pre-chorus (the scream and the moving heads), the
slow zoom out to reveal the bands logo which is broken up throughout the song and also the final main
sequence (the part with the
over exposure or
shallow focus). When we got in to the Drama Studio, we set everything up and filmed the scream and moving heads part, in front of the
blue screen so we could
key out the background and make it
absolute black, a few times so we could then choose later on in
Premiere. Because of the
restricted framing, we were able to hide the rest of the Drama Studio and also focus the
lighting to be slightly behind the camera which meant the orangey light that comes off the lights didn't affect our filming.
What problems did you encounter?
When we had finished the screaming and head moving shots, we realised that the Drama Studio wasn't an apt location for the other sequences we had planned on capturing. This is because the
mise-en-scene wasn't as good as we had thought: the flooring was the wrong colour, the walls were not a solid black, it's fairly cramped and the lighting isn't suitable for the
monochrome colour wash we wish to apply in
post production. Therefore, we are working out where we could film these sequences, and have decided we should use an
external location, whether this is a quiet road, a deserted house, or a rural area, any would look more suitable for our
aesthetic than the Drama Studio.
What did we learn in regards to improvements on the next shoot?
Having had a dramatic change of idea for location today, I think we have learnt something we can apply to the whole project: we have to be flexible in order to produce the video in the quality that we want it. It has also proven that we can adhere to the aforementioned, we made a snap judgement and that sometimes you can only tell if a location is right when you actually come to film there.
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