recording over old stuff

Throughout this project we have learnt new skills. One thing ive learnt is that we always need to stop the tape at the right second as we could record over our work or someone elses work which we did do. However it was okay as the piece we recorded over wasnt needed.

Missed Out On Filming

I wasnt able to be at one of the shootings, but i did get to watch what had been filmed and have my take on what i think was good, bad and needed reshooting. My group members agreeed so we are therefore going to reshoot some of the scenes as the lighting and camera angles werent as good as they couldve been.

2nd day of filming

Today we filmed the main shots were our artist sits in the living room surrounded by candles to represent how she is missing the relatiionship but also how the relationship is burning out, which the candles represent.
We used many different shots such as mid shot to show the artist, long shot to show the room and the candles within the room aswell as to establish its a new location. We also used close ups so they audience remembers to focus on the artist.
We also came up with a shot were we have the camera on one side of sarah (Tia, our artist) to show that she is focusing on somethign afar,disconnected from the audience as she is thinking about the relationship. However, as its a music video and the artist should always be connected to their audience, we did have sarah turn to the camera a few times to keep the fans enticed.

Todays filming

Today we filmed shots for the ending of our music video. We also filmed some shots were our artist is looking out on the view thinking of the relationship.
What i think couldve been better is the time we went out to film. We filmed at about 3.45pm which meant that it would start out light but then get darker which in a way can set a sad mood to the tone of the music video. However as it was getting cold and darker we didnt shoot as much as we would like to. If we have time, we will hopefully be able to reshoot.

Planning for next filming session

As we are planning to shoot this saturday and sunday we have to make sure that the weather ia suitable for the shot. I have checked on 'Metcheck' and they are good days for filming as it will be sunny but breazy aswell which is a good effect on our artists hair. As it will be getting darker as we film, the darkness can represent how upset 'Tia' is feeling and represent that she has no hope on the relationship starting up again.

New Artist

We have decided to change our artist as our current one didnt have the time to be apart of our music video as she had other priorities. I think this was a good decision as our new artist is sarah and as she is a media student in our group she understands the different shots that would work well for different lyrics etc.

'Candle Scene' Inspiration

Christina Perri - A Thousand Years inspired us to have candles lit in our music video as for me the candles represent the love that our artist had with her ex.

At 1:03 there is a scene were Christina is surrounded by candles and we were inspired by that as it can reprent the lyrics so we have used it in our music video. In my opinion the meaning behind having all the candles is to represent her heart as she still wants their to be light in her old relationship. We were also inspired by this music video at 2.54 when the candles were blown out to represent that their love has died out.