Following Production Processes P3 (d)

Production Process Review -

Day 1: 
On the first day, I started off by filming the scenes where Chloe would be at home. These scenes included shots of Chloe getting ready for school and dreading going. And also the scenes of which she looks up a video of Martin Luther King Jr and watches him on youtube. This is quite difficult as we filmed it is a fairly tight space so it was hard to get the right angle at which to film, however I was happy with the shots we got and felt that we got then at just the right angle. Not other lighting was used apart from room lighting, but the shots still came out brightly lit.

We then went to school and shot the scenes showing Anna bullying Chloe. We used the IT room as our set for these scenes which was good because it was a large space and it allowed us to make the shots look authentic with desks and whiteboards. This made it easier to be able to get all the angle that we aimed to achieve.

The camera angles we used when shooting this scene, we wanted to create the impression that Chloe was weaker than Anna, portraying that she had small meaning in Anna's eyes, as the bully. We did this by filming Chloe from a high angle, facing down towards Chloe, making her seem small compared to Anna as she was the one being bullied. We then wanted to portray Anna with a big presence and show her as being powerful, so we decided to film her with a low angle shot, to create the impression that she has the dominating character in the scene.

Filming the shots of Chloe being nervous before Anna "walked into the classroom." We did this by filming a few different shots from different angles of her looking nervous. Close-up shots were used mainly and slow zoom shots as well. These were used because to create a more intense impression to the scene when put together during the editing process.

During this filming production process, we captured the following shots that are demonstrated on this shot-list that I produced, this screenshot is shown below:

Day 2: 

On the second day, I started by setting up the background that I was going to shoot my video against. I decided to use the wall in the media studies room as the support of the blank background and decided it would be useful to film against this as it didn't have any wrinkles in it and it was smooth to film against. I then asked Sam to stand at the centre of the background so I could place the lights in their correct position. This was quite difficult at first because I thought that the first test shots I captured we over-exposed and I didn't want the clips to appear as too bright.

I then moved the lights around a few times and got them in the right position that I think allowed for the shots not to be over-exposed, but not to be very darkly lit either, so I was then happy with the way the lights were positioned. I decided to use 3-point-lighting for my shoot because I thought that it just gave just enough light to the shots without making them too bright and it was useful to have 3 lights to work around so I could move them and fit them around each other.

I then started filming Sam, but started of but only filming him lip syncing the chorus of the song, I did this because I felt that it was the most important part of my video and I wanted to be able to get those clips edited together first so I could fit the rest of the song around the chorus.

We wanted to keep the the shots of Sam quite simple as we wanted to show the lip-syncing shots clearly to make the music video more authentic. We mainly used medium close-ups, however we did shoot with long shots a couple of times to add some variety to the shots. 

Day 3: 

On the third day, I used the same location with background as I did on my first day of shooting. This was helpful because I new what the right aperture was to use with the camera against this background and the right angle and shot I would need to use against it. However, I did find it quite difficult to then set up the lighting the same as it was before as when I first set it up again, my test shots came out as fairly over-exposed again. But after moving the lights around again for a while, I found the right position for then to make the shots look that same, lighting wise, as they did when shooting on Day 1. 

Following by storyboards, I needed to get a long shot of Sam lip syncing showing him from the waist up. Although this is what I'd planned, I found it quite difficult to get this shot with the human eye-effect lens as it doesn't help to get particularly wide shots. However, I then moved the tripod with the camera on it around to see if I could get the right shot. 

Following my production process, I feel that my planning helped me a lot to know what shots I wanted to get which helped the filming process run smoothly. However, I do think that I should've been more prepared as I wasted a lot of time moving equipment around that I could've done filming. But overall, I am really happy with the clips I had shot and had captured all the shots I had planned for my film.

With this day of filming, we followed the shot list by capturing all of the following shots that are demonstrated on this screenshot below:

Below are two clips demonstrating a video montage of our team during the production process, whilst filming, showing the equipment used and the locations we filmed in.