Forest Shoot #2

As we have recently returned to our forest location we have filmed more shots. Many of these shots were originally planned our for our storyboard but as we had lots of time we filmed a couple of unplanned shots so we have more choice when we come to editing the sequence.

 

This prezi is a brief presentation on what we filmed while we were on location but there is still some missing shots which we will have to film within the next few weeks if we hope to meet our deadline in time.

Filming & Photography

Today we were able to film more shots in the forest area. While doing so, I was able to take a few photos, and I am hoping that we are able to use these shots for their Noxa's digipaks and/or website. (My personally modified versions of these photos, which are tailored to suit my suited style, is on my individual blog.)

Risk Assessment: Forest #2

As we are heading back to the forest for our second shoot on location we have written up another risk assessment to show that we have identified and now how to avoid all of the risks at our location. Similar to our other risk assessments we have assessed the level of risk and how we can work our way around these risks.

Drama Room Shoot #2

Yesterday we had our second shoot in the drama room and this time we decided to make a start on our artistic shots. We wanted to use masks to create the effect of light and dark, good and evil by having one white mask to represent innocence and purity and one black mask to represent darkness and evil. Through several different shots we displayed the transformation of Noxa turning from innocent, with the white mask, to becoming hateful and vengeful, wearing the black mask:

We will be editing a short sequence with the footage that we filmed in the drama room to see if it all works together. We have also decided that some shots will be played backwards and others in slow motion to add an extra effect to certain shots. The final edit will be posted on this blog when it is completed.

Lucy's Edit:

Risk Assessment: Drama Room #2

As we will be going to our drama room location tomorrow we wrote up a risk assessment to make sure we had identified all of the risks when going to this particular location with the equipment. We have written the level of risk and ways to avoid them to make our shoot a bit easier when setting up the equipment.

Forest Shoot

Today we went to the forest but unfortunately, due to Friday 13th bad luck, everything went a bit wrong. The dress sadly got dirty and it started to rain after a short while but we did manage to get a few shots. We mainly recorded on a hill and a bridge where we collected some of the shots from our storyboard. We also got two behind-the-scenes shots:

We plan to revisit our location next week to film the shots that we did not manage to film today and we will also visit our other locations to film other scenes.

Risk Assessment: Forest

As we are filming in the forest tomorrow we are required to fill in a risk assessment to show that we have acknowledged all of the potential risks when filming in the location. We have written how high the risk is and ways to avoid any injuries or damage done to the equipment:

Animatic

We have finally finished our animatic! This will give us a good outline on what we want and expect our music video to look like. Similar to our storyboard we have drawn out the shots and put them to music - a moving storyboard! - to help us when we begin editing so we have an idea on how and where to start. We have planned to make our actual music video quicker than the animatic and to film more shots than the ones that are presented in the animatic.
This is the finished product:

Making An Animatic

Today we started to edit an animatic that we started last week to help us get a clearer idea of what shots to take when start filming. We drew the shots out on post-it notes and today we started to edit them to our song choice "Narcissistic Cannibal". The final edit should be completed soon and we have a plan to travel to and film in our forest location on Friday.

First Shoot!

Today we had our first shoot! This took place in the drama room where we set up the lights and practiced lip-syncing. We also experimented with the lighting, switching between normal and blue lights, to make the simple standing, lip-syncing shot more visually interesting.

These are some images that were taken during the production. As today was our first shoot it was taken as a practice sessions to get a feel for our song and how to film our planned shots. We made two edits in total using the footage that we filmed in the drama room to see if it all worked together and to see what shots could be placed next to eachother:

Jasmine's Edit:

 

Lucy's Edit:

Shooting Schedule

Although it isn't fully filled out yet, this is what our shooting schedule looks like so far. On the first day of shooting, we will be in the drama room, shooting scenes with more dramatic lighting.