Last shoot

On the 15th of march was our final shoot and last chance to get any spare footage that could be useful to have when it comes to final edits. The location was again at Claire's house as we needed more shots Katherine at different angles which would reflect better on our storyboard. We used the camera and the tripod to get different angles such as low shots, mid shots and high angle shots. Katherine was very helful when it came to instructing her of persitions we wanted such as sat slouching across the living room sofa and nelt down infront of the fireplace. These persition where key as they held great story line within our video, showing Adele reflecting back apon the good times she had with her boyfrined but at the same time greiving and being emotionaly effected. It was a little hard to manage all of the equipemnt we had such as the tripod in the living room as it was quite small although was deffinately the location we needed.

This last shoot also gave me a chance to take some last minute pictures for my ancillary tasks of which i though could be useful for my music booklet as behind the scenes shots.

Behind the scenes

Break up shoot

Last Week we had the break up scenes to film, unfortunately i couldn't attend this shoot as i had college. This footage took place beinhind our school in the nearby wooded area, we felt that this would be a good location for these shots as the narrative for these scenes was of a break up and Adele being left and feeling very alone and isolated from anyboday else. The tall trees and wooded poen area could reflect this well, for the breakup scene we used angle reverse angle and over the shoulder shots, we felt these would be very abstract and make the audience see the shot from Adele's point of view. Again we didn't use a tripod or dolly for these shots as the ground was very uneven and it would not have of been as dramatic and exiting using a steady cam and so using handhel camera infact did make the shot more realistc and gave a very rustic impression.

Here is a brief explanation from Dean and Claire of what they shot this day:

Open Arts & Media Evening

Last Night was our schhol's open Arts and Media Evening of where many parents and teachers of the school came to see our produced work, this included showing our music videos of that we have produced so fare. I felt very proud it show my groups music video, the feed back we got from the audience was very positive, we all looked at the feed back as a group and discuseed what we thought we had to change or edit of our video such as improving on lip syncing and having more scenes of the couple together.

Home shoot

Today as there was a staff training day and myself and the group had a day off we spent our time filming more scenes at a new location. This was at Claires house, we needed a homely location of which could represent Adeles's home of where we wanted scenes and shots of her getting over her ex boyfirend. We also wanted this location to make the video come across as realistic and create the right mood and atmosphere,we also wanted it to seem like anyother break up or seperation, the situation being devastating and very hard on the woman in the relationship.

The type of equipemnt we used for these shots was, the camera, tripod, dolly, and the tracking system of which we used for backward tracking outside of her house. At first we had a liuttle problem assembiling the tracking system although we eventualy overcome this and managed to get the fottage we needed.

Group discussion

This week we grouped up and discussed what future shots to take and the footage we deffinately needed to keep from our draft work. This included the scenes from Adele's house where she would be alone and showing how she is being emtional effected, feeling hurt, alone and sad. We also discussed hoe our ancillary work is getting on and the simularities that where accuring within our seperate peices of work. Images from our discussion

Editing skills

Learning how to use the software of Adoble Premier Pro cs3 is a priority when it comes to editing and producing our music video, myself and claire thought it was necessary for us to get more equiped with the programme and so in our spare time we took it upon ourselves and with help from Dean to practise editing.