Filming over the week

On Sunday, we did the all the filming for our main artist. What me and Ella decided to do was get our artist to sing as much as the song as possible, we did this several times so we could use the best of the shots for our final video. We tried many different angles but made sure that the camera was at the same distance away at all time. We also filmed Ella's and Hannah's part together too; this was where we finally decided to film this part inside as the weather was not too good and we did not have the locations that we desired, however we worked effectively by using our storyboard all the way through.

Today, I completed the filming of myself and my sister. As Ella was unable to make it, it was a challenge for me to film it by myself, so when I filmed myself my sister helped me do this by making sure the camera was in the same position every time we filmed something and also started and stopped the filming at the correct time for me. When I filmed, I had to make sure that the camera distance was the same when we filmed on Sunday and that the lighting was bright- this was achieved by using advice and having 3 different lights on, to make the person faces clearer and brighter. I also made sure that both myself and Sophie were appropriately dressed and looked similar as the role was to portray sisters. To do this, I made sure that our hair was clipped the same way (this makes us look similar) and I also used make-up to make my eyes stand out- another feature that is similar.

As I was filming alone today, I had to use my judgement to see whether or not the lip-syncing was good enough or not. Some shots had to be filmed several times and in the end, I made sure both myself and my sister were actually singing (this can be heard on the camera too but we can get rid of that during editing). Overall, I feel today was a good success and during tomorrows lesson I hope that me and Ella will be able to get a fair bit of editing complete, however I'm unsure how much was done during the two lessons on Monday as I was ill.