Filming on location

On Tuesday the 12th of July we all completed a group task of making a music video for the Glee cover version of Don't Stop Believing. We all went down to the river Ancholme in Brigg near Bargain Madness to take it in turns filming and singing into camera. The advantage of this was to give everyone the feel of making a musc video and how hard it will actually be. We used a range of different shot types when I was recording to show my skills, one of the shots that I used was a zoom in and a zoom out shot. I tried to use this shot as I thought it would make my video look a bit different to other peoples music video. However I soon found out that this would not work on Final Cut Pro X.

We also used a range of group shots to represent fun teenage culture as it was a teenage video and we used our storyboard sheet to base our camera shots on, for example we used the bridge in Brigg to take shots of people when the line "Hiding somewhere in the night" as we felt that the lyrics can work in cohesion with the video as it is like we are hidden under a bridge.

We started of the video with a close up on the models face to catch his emotion while he is singing about a girl. We then went to the girls point of view where the camera uses a close up shot of her singing about the boy, which creates the suggestion that they are singing about each other.

 We then  moved down the river to have a different girl stood still with a guy approaching from behind her when the words "The smell of wine and cheap perfume" came on as the girl started to spray perfume on herself to work in cohesion with the lyrics. For the final shots we has the group stood in 2 lines and having us run across each other doing the stereotypical teenage dancing.          



However we then finished the song off by having the whole group standing in a 'V' and doing a synchronized dance routine, as we felt this was very stereotypical for a teenage music video.





From doing this I have learnt that you have to have a lot of patience to get your filming right as we found out with a few of our camera shots, as if they went wrong we had to keep re-recording them until they were right. We realized that we also need a patient model who is willing to keep re-doing the shots as we will need to think of ways we can improve the shots to make them appealing to the TA. We found this out from the first shot as I had to keep singing the same part over and over until I got the part the way we needed it. Another aspect of this day that helped me was that we realized that we should only stick to basic shot types unless you are confident the advanced shot that you take will work on Final Cut Pro X. This software helped me realize that we need the singer to sing in time with the music as much as possible as then it is much easier to sync up the video with the music.