Filming Overview Day 3

Recording Studio & Pit

Our third day of filming was taken up by two different locations; the recording studio and the pit at our school. Lola and I both decided that we wanted to use these two locations since the recording studio would give us the realistic feel of filming our recording artist, as well as conveying a different convention as well as varying the shots within the flow of our music video. When deciding about using the pit at our school, we both thought that it would give the right atmosphere when portraying the performance side of our music video, since we are exposed to having different lighting in order to get the right feel that we want to.  When filming in the recording studio, we managed to get everything that we wanted to shoot within an ok amount of time. This is because our actress, Lauren, goes to another school in Bishop's Stortford so we therefore had to pick her up in order to get her to our location, meaning that we got back to our school later than expected due to heavy traffic. Because of this, it meant that we weren't able to get everything shot that we wanted to shoot in the pit, since we had to be out of there by 5:45 pm and we had only arrived there at 5:20pm. In addition to this, we did shoot a few shots of Lauren lip syncing but I pointed out to Lola when looking back at this particular footage on final cut pro 10, that it does looked rushed and not to the professional standard that we are trying to get it to. As well as this, the lighting box that changes all the lighting in the pit was locked, meaning we could only use the dimmed lighting on the walls, and the LED attachable light that we have for our camera lens and therefore couldn't get the different lighting that we wanted in order to highlight and emphasise Lauren when she is singing and dancing. 

In order to overcome this, I have managed to book the pit again for Tuesday 17th November from 4:30pm - 5:45pm. This therefore gives us enough time to film the performance sequence and the lip syncing shots again so that we are both happy with the progress we have made within filming the footage for our music video. I personally think that Lola and I had overcome this issue on this filming day well, since we were using our initiative and thinking outside the box.