Production

During this week we had two days off school. On the Thursday we decided to film our remaining shots. We drove to school and set up our shots including the car crash scene where we see a body lying in front of a car.

We parked the car in the middle of the car park and quickly got in place to film the scene as there was another car coming up behind us and probably wouldn't of wanted to be held up. We successfully got the shot and i had to get in and move my car.



The other shot was of the leaves falling around are character to put in reverse so they look like they are falling off.

Production

After receiving our first cut feedback, we needed to get back into editing and making new shot to film, so we spent most of the lesson planning through them and creating a schedule for the new scenes.



I mainly focused on editing the shots that were deemed good enough to remain in the final cut whilst James and Jon were drawing storyboards and doing the schedule

!st Cut feedback

We displayed our 1st cut of our music video and we were given feedback by our teacher of both the positives and negatives of our production and it was as follows:

Holding Shot Steady


-First zoom out shot on Ashley - re do without the camera jerk, or use montage to cover the unsteady look.


Framing a Shot


-Good shot to open with (close up of Ash)


Appropriate Material


-Use beat at start of the video to link to suitable visual.

-Corridor shot - emphasise that it is strange - use empty corridor twice

-Improve sots by hedge.

-Approaching pump house, interesting - develop this further.

-Ashley's house boring - change.

-Add shot (school) to blank sheet of paper (dinner table shot) - reference to the "streets" video.



Selecting Mise en Scene



-Good noir shadow as Ashley leaves bed.

-Pictures are good ideas, but don't come across them.

-Last shot - good however, perhaps cover Ash with the sheet.



Editing for Meaning



-Start the music after captions.

-Stress the drama of the eyes opening - sound effect beep.

-Sitting down at the table scene - cut out the empty chair part.

-Good transition to school corridor.

-Good effect - paring action with beat in music.


Varied Shot Transitions, Caption and Other FX


-Use reverse effect - Ash moving in one direction, other people moving backwards?

-Leaves falling upwards?



Use of Sound with Images/Editing



-Some good ideas



Overall Comment



-"Good overall idea, but some shots lack impact - go for more strangeness/ weirdness, build up uncertainty in viewers - can they trust what they are feeling? Colour in last shot is good, use spot colour at other points".

1st Cut

Editing

We started editing by setting up a few shots on there own and going through various video effects to get the right kind of sepia we neededfor the whole video. We found a way by putting a tint over the shots and changing the colour and reducing opacity. As i had come up with most of storyboarding ideas i edited most of the shots, where as Jon, returning from his ciesta in the USA, would put the special effects in certain shots at home.

Filming

We eventually got to filming the country scenes and got plenty of shots of the sky to allow Jon, when he returned from his Disneyland romp, to edit in planes flying in every direction.

Filming on Location

After losing Jon, the director, to the charm of DisneylandFlorida, it was left to me and James to recover any chance of finishing filming within the times we had set. We drove out to the industrial estate of Hertford to find the right place to find our wide shot of an open country. We found a bank that elevated us over the road through the grass and we set up camera and set up the tripod, but as we went to turn on the camera, it had not battery, so wewent homeWe then started filming the in-house scenes. We managed togetmost of our shots done within two takes. We found it tricky to get the scene with the television in the background, to get it within the frame at the precise time we needed it to. We also had to put pictures in frames to give the illusion of something being wrong.