Tuesday 15 November 2011

Shooting 1st attempt.

Shooting for the first time with my music video idea wasn't very good. I decided that actually I didn't like my idea and that I needed to change it in order to be happy with what I was producing.So going onto my new idea I had to just slightly rethink my concept part of my music video. I did film some to practice but once I looked back I noticed there were many different things that I needed to change and many different things that I hadn't picked up on whilst filming but I have no made a note of to change:
  • Clothes; I hadn't noticed that one of my characters was wearing a coat, whereas the other was in a t-shirt, although this was how they were feeling, when looking at it together it looks silly as it doesn't make sense one of them in a winter coat on in a t-shirt and therefore I need them to both be in the same kind of clothing. 
  • Shots; I had took many close ups/mid-shots and many from behind as well. However I decided that I need shots from the front for example if someone starts to walk away perhaps focus on their feet and follow their feet then from the front as well. 
  • Narrative?; I didn't want my music video to have a narrative at the start, however as it goes on I'm beginning to think that perhaps it would make more sense if there was a story. This isn't what I'd like to do but I might try and see if it looks good as more of a narrative. 
  • Story board; I haven't completed a story board as I was currently planning on doing it in parts as there is two parts to the music video, conceptual part and the performance part, therefore I was going to work on one part and then the other in order to allow me to fully focus. I decided to start with the concept as I thought it would take the most time but actually now I'm thinking about it and the performance could actually take a lot longer to shoot and might even be more hassle to keep reshooting that the concept. 
Overall I'm glad that I got to this point where I noticed that I need to work on a lot of things, I feel like I'm learning as I'm going along and that works well for me as it gives me time to think about things and go back to them later. I think I know more or less how I want it to look now, so I am excited to re-shoot this weekend and see what I can come up with.