On Tuesday night we filmed the performance element of my music video. I decided that the best approach for this part of the video would be to shoot a number of different master shots from varying distances and angles and then from these shots select the sections I needed during the editing process. The shots I used varied from: ECU, CU, MCU, MS and LS. The advantage of doing this would be that I have a variety of shots to cut back to at different points so hopefully the performance element looks more realistic and mimics the style of Ed's video 'One'.
Location Decision
- In the end I decided on using the stage as my location for this part of the video. This location was perfect for creating the right tone and atmosphere for an isolated and emotion driven performance.
- Back stage we managed to find a microphone and microphone stand, this was perfect for the mise-en-scene of each shot and made the scenario a lot more believable. Without these props, along with the acoustic guitar, this performance scene wouldn't have worked and wouldn't have fit with the artist style and the conventions of many pop performance videos.
Lighting
- We ended up using a spot light as the lighting for this scene, however we found that when we began to shoot that this was actually too bright for the camera and it was hard to see Ben's face in each shot.
- We decided therefore to move Ben just slightly out of the spot light and this worked much better in terms of being able to pick up his face on the camera.
- When looking back at the footage on a computer I have noticed that the spotlight has reacted slightly with the lens of my camera causing a flashing light effect on all of the shots. Whilst this wasn't the look I was originally going for it actually looks rather effective and I'm thinking it might be even more effective to put a black and white filter on this section of the video to give it a more dramatic and emotional effect. This would again be taking inspiration from Ed Sheeran's 'One'.
Lip-syncing
- The main challenge that I was personally concerned about with regards to this part of the music video was the lip-syncing element. Whilst I still haven't tested the footage against the song to see if it effectively matches up I was happy with the way that it seemed to go on Tuesday.
- How we filmed this section was we decided to have the track playing from my phone in the background so that Ben could hear it. He would then lip-sync over the top of the whole track so that he was, in theory, in time with the beat and lyrics of the song.
- I didn't need Ben to be lip-syncing for the whole song, but I made sure that he put particular emphasis on the moments of the song that I would be wanting to use.
- Overall I think this will be successful footage, however, it would be easy to re-shoot if we decided that the footage wasn't good enough to use.
Photography
- I decided to take the opportunity to get some photos that I could possibly use for my promotional packaging and magazine advert. Here are some of the photos that I have taken of Ben. I kept in mind the branding identity style of other pop artists when taking these shots and how many of them use their face as their branding style, to make them more relatable to their audience. Here are some of the shots I took:
Next Step
- The next step is now to upload my video footage on to the editing software and pile together a very rough, rough cut of my footage.
- I will start by editing together the performance sections and then move on to the narrative scenes later.
- I will be filming the scenes for the narrative sections of my video on Thursday 19th November. For this section I am aiming to film a lot of shots outside as well as filming the flashback scenes inside my house. Hopefully this will be a quick process as I aim to follow my storyboard pretty closely for each shot, it will just depend on whether the shots work effectively and whether or not the weather decides to play up and cause us to have to delay the shoot.
- But next thing to focus on now is the 1 minuet rough cut of my footage.
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