What happened during filming

(12/10/10)

On Tuesday,we filmed the Jermaine the main actor walking down the road of Atkins Rd, there were also two other actors that was involved who were Rhianna and Victoria who played the main characters close friends. Here all the characters were walking down the road then the main male actor then gets a hone call but there is no one on the phone, so gets slightly angry, then carries on walking into school.

We did a long shot of the characters walking along the road, and an extreme closeup of his phone and a close up of the characters face.

The only complications were that we had to continuously stop and start filming because we were in front of the schools gates and people needed to get past, also being a far distance that they had to walk towards us it made it difficult for the rest of the characters to know when we were ready to film them.

The parts that i really enjoyed filming that day was the actual filming because we had a chance to put different shots and angles because we wanted to make that section in the music to have a variety to it

Then after this we did the picnic section, in this part, we filmed them walking towards the picnic area and also them sitting down being cosy.

For these shots I bought in the props; the blanket and the basket. We did a extreme closeup of the couple holding hands and a wide shot of them walking. Also, we did a high angle shot, a extreme close up and also a wide shot of this as well

The complications of this shot was that the characters were feeling awkward being close so we had to take many takes, and also because we were filming in the open there was a few people coming around and looking and also distracting the actors.
The part i enjoyed the most was that we were giving the actors directions. Also, the parts that was working with us well was the weather, the weather was really sunny and warm, this helped showed the feelings to the camera


(13/10/10)

The third of filming here we filmed two different sections of the music video so this day day was very productive. The first section was Fatimata the main female actor crying in the toilets and dramatic. Here to add effect we added dramatic makeup and also used artificial lighting.


The problems with filming was that there wasn't sufficient spacing, so the camera was hard to move about, and also all the crew members. Also, having to reapply the makeup up after each shoot was very very time consuming and also having to redirect the actor into what we wanted was difficult but i came out well. Also, because it was artificial setting it took some time to see which would would have the right lighting to we had to play around with a lot of switches.

Also each crew member had a chance to film so we divided the shooting into sections with gave us a chance to experiment fully.


I was in charge of putting the makeup on Fatimata which was the most fun and also having a chance to experiment. Since the bathroom which we used had like a corridor to enter it we managed to come up of using the wall as well so it wouldn't just be using the toilet seat as a setting

The second section is were we filmed Fatimata begging for Jermaine back. This was done in the common room. The difficulties that came up was that Fatimata wasn't 100% comfortable with Jermaine as well so it took some time of the characters to warm up initially, also people were also distracting the actors as well. But, the positives was that although the filming was dramatic it the set had a good vibe, the communication was strong and no one got in the way of anything

What we did on the first day of shooting

(11/10/10)
Yesterday we recorded the clip of when she storms out the classroom. We used our actor Fatimata but we had some complications, we did not find a male role character to play the part so we had filmed mostly Fatimata in various ways. Initially we filmed her in a wide angle following shot and the closeup. Then we realised that adding more shots would be better to add to the variety. So, we did an high angle shot.

While we were shooting this sequence we used a computer to play the track so that it would be easier to Fatimata to mine to the song in tune.

Also, there was another problem, we originally started out using the tri-pod but then we didn't see the smooth consistency that we wanted as a result. Then we decided to film something else to stabilise the camera, so use used a stack of dictionaries on the table. With this we got the results that we wanted.
After watching all of the shots that took place we uploaded them to Premiere Pro.

Because We are planning to shoot outside for the next sequence, my partner download the soundtrack with the music video on her itunes so we are making up for not having a computer before hand.
Next day for shooting the props that we are preparing to bring in is the basket, blanket for the picnic. And also dramatic makeup, the red. green, black top, and black shorts with black trousers.