As the shooting day had finished the next step was to digitalise our footage and get it safely on to the media server in editing suite in order to carry on with the production of the pop video.
For the editing we had used Final Cut Pro and as we worked with the programme previously last year it was fairly familiar and only some extra bits to be done. Starting with the existing footage we slowly but surely started putting it together. First of all putting the storyboard that we shot over the soundtrack , then looking through the shots and putting them together. It was hard to put a lot of lip singing in as not much of it was shot , as the actor did not know all the words exactly and in some parts the singing just doesn’t look good.
As we had finished the outlay of the video we stated getting all the shots together making sure it makes sense and works together.
Shoot day
We had a full shoot day beginning at 8 am and finishing at 6 pm. We used 2 cameras , the Sony PD170 and the JVC1500, with Sennheiser tripod. We also used tracking equipment.
We filmed our singer in performance within a narrative of a mental hospital in the studio during the morning. The afternoon was spent on location on nearest by towns and buildings.
We began our shoot on the 16th of November 2009 and first half of the day we have spent in the studio. The day before that we had to prepare the whole studio set and make sure everything is there in place and ready to role first thing in the morning. Starting at around 9:30 we slowly worked our way to 12:00 and straight away went to our location in Ewhurst place as we where running late. Although it was challenging in the studio and time consuming we caught up shooting in Ewhurst and after having a quick lunch break moved out to our third location in a near by village called Cranleigh. This was our major location were we shot most of our video and sequences .
Our final location was the Peaslake house where we also took sometime to set up the equipment such as the tracking and had to shoot from many different positions.
There had been some difficulties in our video. First and major problem was the weather. Our video meant to show the contrast between the two worlds very grey , dark and miserable hospital and the sunny , happy and joyful dream world. We really hoped for the sun and warm colours however in return we got some rain and freezing cold weather.
Second major problem we came across was the dropping out of our two actors the protagonist (lead singer) and the nurse. Both of which had to be quickly replaced by our team members. I had to step in and do the acting of the main character singing and it was very challenging in both ways , learning the lyrics on the day and also lack of acting did not help. However it was all compensated by our other lead character the girl from the dreams who is a great actor and knows what she was doing bringing the confidence in all of our team.
On the shoot day except being the actor I have also tried some camera work in the shots I wasn’t involved. I believe that gave me a great deal of experience and new knowledge.
Although there were some difficulties I believe the shoot day went pretty well without any catastrophes and instead I believe we have enjoyed our selves and we very productive and communicative. There was one particular shot that had really boost our pop video where the two characters are standing in the middle of the field and the camera is spinning around them.
There had been some difficulties in our video. First and major problem was the weather. Our video meant to show the contrast between the two worlds very grey , dark and miserable hospital and the sunny , happy and joyful dream world. We really hoped for the sun and warm colours however in return we got some rain and freezing cold weather.
Second major problem we came across was the dropping out of our two actors the protagonist (lead singer) and the nurse. Both of which had to be quickly replaced by our team members. I had to step in and do the acting of the main character singing and it was very challenging in both ways , learning the lyrics on the day and also lack of acting did not help. However it was all compensated by our other lead character the girl from the dreams who is a great actor and knows what she was doing bringing the confidence in all of our team.
On the shoot day except being the actor I have also tried some camera work in the shots I wasn’t involved. I believe that gave me a great deal of experience and new knowledge.
Although there were some difficulties I believe the shoot day went pretty well without any catastrophes and instead I believe we have enjoyed our selves and we very productive and communicative. There was one particular shot that had really boost our pop video where the two characters are standing in the middle of the field and the camera is spinning around them.
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