Saturday 8 October 2011

Diary of filming day 2


The second day of filming was a great success as we felt that our first filming day didn't accomplish as much as we wanted. However due to weather we had limited time filming, we had to end as we felt like it would be a contradictory location as it would be normal weather in one shot then raining in the following shot. The filming today involved mostly the indoor shots, we filmed Paige in a black outfit with black heels and used the guitar prop. Her eye make up was again heavy, dramatic and symbolic to the tone of the song. This time we spent more time on her eyes as we felt we didn't put as much effort due to the make up difficulties so this time we used dark glitter and gems on fake eyelashes, this really enhanced with her eyes and made them stick out tremendously, this shows our following of our image motif. In the filming, we included direct and indirect address and we want to involve the audience with the direct address and then use indirect address to make sure the somber tone of song can create a real life situation for the viewers to recognize. Our location this time is different to what we intended for it to be. I will signify this after all filming is done. The location was ideal as we wanted a dark room to signify the mood at the beginning of the track. Lip syncing gradually came along and got better with the repetition of learning the lyrics. As we were filming, we used a lot of extreme close up including close ups of her feet. With the close up of the feet we wanted to fade the Black shoes with the tanned flat shoes together and also include it as a jump cut to signify the different time periods for example, the black costume will represent the period after the break up and the pale pastel colors with the tanned shoes will represent the happy time before the break up which will be represented in the video by a merging transition used from the Mac. We also did shots of Paige singing from a high angle to show the vulnerable and naive stage of her life at this moment in time. The extreme close up shots also consisted of a close up of the guitar Paige plays, We hope to bring in Goodwin's Principles here and use the Music to visuals by playing a guitar when the guitar sets off in the beginning of the track. The outcome of our filming day was great and we have had a successful attempt with editing.