Home shoot

On the 27th February school was closed because of a staff training day, we decided to take this oprtunity and film one of the scenes for our music video. We decided to shoot this scene at my house because we felt that it suited the mood and the atmosphere. We used several different shots; such as high, low and mid angle shots. The equipment we used was the camera, tripod, dolly and the tracking system which we used to do a backwards tracking shot outside my house. One of the problems we had was trying to assemble the tracking system but we overcame this problem by researching it on the internet.

Drafts and new imagery

After our feedback lesson our teacher told us that we needed to change our imagery, colours and logo for our ancillary tasks. Here are the new versions of the ancillary tasks and the photos that i have taken.

As you can see I have changed the colours and the type of photography to lighter colours and full body shots, I think this is a good combination because it makes the overall layout work and the red and the pale colour works.

Filming

On the 28th of January me and Dean went to film at Bluewater with our model Katharine but unfortunatley Daisy wasn't able to come that day. We used a handheld video camera because where we were filming it was all grass and stones so we were unable to use the dollly or tripod. Even thouhg we had use of limited equpiment we still did a range of different shots such as closeups, long range and with this we had the mobility to film from different angles.

We mostly filmed the narrative for the story of the video which included katharine and Dean (who plays her boyfriend) being together and then Katharine on her own looking back to what she had.

Here is a behind the scenes video

Feedback session

On the 25th January my group had a feedback session with our teacher in class about the video and ancillary tasks. The feedback that our teacher gave us about our ancillary was that we shouldn't use dark colours and head and shoulder shots because this would be too similar to the actual artist and although we should be trying to portray the same mood as Adele we need to our own style for the ancillary tasks, our teacher also said that we need to finalise our drafts.

For the video the feedback was that we needed more iconic shots of London and that we needed more of a narrative so the viewer could follow and know what is happening.

Here are some of the original shots i took.

Here is the first draft of the magazine advert.

This weeks shoot

This week Dean, daisy, myself and our model Katharine went up to London to re-shoot some scenes that needed improving and shoot some new scenes. We wanted to portray the Journey that Adele is taking to recover form her heartbreak so we shot quite a lot of scenes of our model either walking through London our travelling on the underground or on buses. Through this we have included a lot of an iconic London such as the London Underground, buses and other various parts of London.

The equipment we used was a camera, tripod and dolly. We did a range of shots such as long shots, mid shots and closeups. The scenes that we re shot was the scene where Adele was looking back on the time where she was on the streets and she first met her boyfriend.

Ancillary Tasks

Along with our music video we also have to produce media products relating to the music video. This is called our ancillary tasks, we had to choose two products to design and produce. I chose the magazine article advertising the music video and a CD cover.

This week our group started to decide on the font, colours and logo we would use. This was tricky because we had to get the right mood across to the audience, because our music video is very sombre and is about heartbreak we had to choose colours that would suit this, mainly black, grey with a little bit of white. We had already taken the photos for the ancillary tasks so now all we have to do is produce these tasks which we will do over the next few weeks.

We had several different ideas for our logos such as:

This is the final logo that we all decided on

This week...

This week has been a rather busy week for the group. On Tuesday the 1oth January we did some more filming in our second location unfortunately Daisy wasn't able attend the shoot but me and Dean . This location for the music video is supposed to look like a club, so we had to find a location like this that we had access to and so for this we chose our school's drama studio but we had to make it look like a club so we covered the windows and mirrors to make it look dark. We had a single spotlight which would be on Katherine and we were instructed by our teacher to not include the floor in filming but do it from the waist up so it gives the effect of a club.

The equipment we used was a video camera, the dolly and the tripod. We encountered quite a few problems when filming such as we had been given a camera with only a few minutes of battery left so we had to find a charger for it but we couldn't film properly because the charger lead was too short so we had to find an extension lead but then that kept getting in the way when we were filming so Dean had to stand behind me and move the lead out of the way as i was filming. We encountered these problems but we learned how to overcome such problems in the future.

The next day on Wednesday the 11th January we decided to edit the filming we had done the day before, there were a few good shots that we used but it was a group decision that we would need to filming for that location to get more shots that we need.