Evidence of Recce - Club scene

Production Journal 12 - Club Scene

Yesterday we filmed the club scene with all the dancers in, for our music video. I was in charge of directing again and my other team member was in charge of filming again because we thought that it worked better that way. We filmed this scene at school because it had a dark room with lighting that was sufficient for a club scene. We also gave the people at the club glowsticks. This scene was the hardest to film because the lighting was dark so when we were filming we thought the lighting was going to be really bad on film but watching it back it looks like exactly what we wanted.

Also, because we had so many people in this scene because it is our club scene, it was hard to direct a lot of people all at once.

We had to tell the dancers that were in our video what to do and at the same time we had to tell the extras that were in it what to do. Also we had trouble getting the DJ in the shot because he was at the far end of the room we were filming in. It was also hard to get everyone in a shot without it looking spacious because we wanted the club scene to look packed.

Overall, this scene went ok it wasn't as hard as we thought it would be before we filmed.

Evidence of Recce - Priscilla 2

Production Journal 11 - Priscilla 2

On Saturday 10th we filmed the remaining part of Priscilla walking to church and seeing the DJ DELIRIOUS logos. This part of the video was filmed by the other member of the group and again I was directed Priscilla on what to do. This part was really easy but we had to film from various places.

The only hindrance we had was the wind blowing all the logos every time we stuck it somewhere. Apart from that filming on saturday went really well.

Evidence of Recce - Priscilla 1

Production Journal 10 - Priscilla 1

On Friday 9th we filmed Priscilla's first dancing scene which was inside the church. During filming we realised the pastor we initially wanted to use was unavailable so we had to find a replacement immediately. I filmed part of the scene because I haven't filmed much of the whole video so I was filming this time.

I also told the actors and dancers what to do because so of them didn't know we had plans to film that day as they just showed up to church but they were fine with us filming.

Evidence of Recce 3 - Paula's scene

Filming Paula's scene.

Production Journal 9

Yesterday me and Sybill my other group member filmed Paula's dance scene in a dance studio. Overall filming was really good because we knew exactly what we wanted the dancers to do because we had previously informed them about it for a week so, they already practiced the dance. It took us roughly an hour to film everything in total. Firstly, we filmed Paula dancing in the dance studio with other dancers and we tried to get them from many angles so we have a variety of shots to choose from.

Lastly, we filmed Paula walking down the hill this is where we filmed her seeing the logos of DJ DELIRIOUS around the area. We had problems with people and cars going past and that set us back a couple of minutes so, it got dark whilst we were waiting for the people to walk past but overall we got a lot of footage we could choose from.

Evidence of Recce 2 - Lawrance's scene

These are the photos we took whilst filming Lawrance's dance scene.

Production Journal 8

On Friday 2nd, we filmed the first of Lawrance's scene of our music video. I wasn't there at the beginning of filming because I had a lesson but the other member of my group was there to film. Filming went ok but we had a little difficulty trying to film from different angles because we were in a confined classroom and the tables in the classroom didn't allow us to move the tripod around. Also, we had to make sure that every time we changed angles all the props and people in the last shot remained the same so it didn't look awkward in the clip that we got.

We learnt from filming this scene that we have to direct the actors and dancers in the video properly so they know what to do, because they were a little bit confused when we started filming so, next time we need to keep informing them throughout filming on what exactly we need them to do.