Post #2- 5th week of filming (24th - 30th Oct 2011)

Before moving onto implimenting our Lavender and London clips, we positioned where we planned our Brightin clips to be. It took a while, and unfortunately, Rakulan wasn't with us this lesson. We then moved onto putting in our London clips, and the London clips were by far the majority of the music video as it seemed- as we took the majority of filming in London, where our singer's love would appear. We took many shots signifying she was a strong individual looking for her love, and we took lots of shots of her new found love.

Post #1- 5th week of filming (24th - 30th Oct 2011)

Today we officially started with the editing of our music video. We looked at all of our footage, but started embedding the Brighton footage. Rakulan helped us choose the footage to implement onto finalcut express.

Today wasn't a matter of major editing, it was simply following our storyboard, and cutting pieces of clips to put into our final cut express file. We used most of our clips, we disregarded the other clips are they were mistakes, but the clips we chose were mostly close ups of our singer walking by the beach and the sea, and others of her on the pier- we chose the clips that came across as elegant and "sexy".

Post #2- 4th week of filming (17th - 23rd Oct 2011)

As I've said before that in my previous Lavender field post; we knew we didn't have enough time to shoot all we wanted to.

So, in today's time spent in the Lavender fields, we luckily had another background scenery of the sunset, and even better, less vicious wind! So with the wind quite steady, we managed to shoot more of our falling rose petals shot, which came out great. We got more shots of our singer walking whist singing, so we pan shot her.

In the end, we managed to complete all of our planned shots within a few hours, and were happy with the outcome.

Post #1- 4th week of filming (17th - 23rd Oct 2011)

 

Third time going back to London, but without our singer this time- Ashley and I had planned to take more scenery shots and eye view shots to be put into our music video. 

We spent a good three hours in London today, and were lucky enough to get sun this time! But unfortunately for us, it faded within the hour we got to London. We spent our time taking eye view shots, giving the impression to the audience that our singer would be walking through crowds of people. We used many pan shots of rivers and close ups of plants to relate to what occurs when the "Sun is up".

Post #2- 3rd week of filming (10th - 16th Oct 2011)

Today was the day that we actually went to Brighton! Ashley, Kim (Our singer) and I arrived at Brighton station after two train rides.

We headed straight to the beach, which was where we started our filming, most of our shots were planned from three days before with the practice shots, so we had a lot of shots of our singer walking alongside the shoreline, using pan and close ups at the same time of her head, chest area and legs- with the burnt pier in the background to viewers would realise where we were.

Unfortunately, the weather wasn't as we hoped it would be- we were hoping for more sun, but we got more clouds, but there was no turning back now, as this was our only chance. After the beach shoots, we moved onto the Brighton Pier, and walked all the way to the back of it, so we could film our singer leaning by the rails with the sky in the background.

Our final shot was of our singer standing a bit up high up with the sea in the background, we used low angle shot to give the impression she is a powerful woman, graciously standing in front of the beautiful sea.

Post #1- 3rd week of filming (10th - 16th Oct 2011)

This week we were planning for our most important trip to one of our three scenery locations; Brighton. In preparation to this date, we did to practice shots of our singer with a nice sunny background.

Our practice shots took place in a nearby park in Coulsdon, with flat landscape- we took many close ups of her body and pan shots of parts of her body like the legs and the chest area (Taking in Laura Mulvey's theory about the "Male gaze"), as we want our singer to come across as sexy to appeal to our male target audience.

The sun was a necessity to appear in our background footage considering the song title "Sun is up", we aimed to get as many bright shots as we could.

Post #2- 2nd week of filming (3rd - 9th Oct 2011)

As we now have our singer, Ashley and I decided to go up to the Lavender fields with our singer- and we had a fantastic sunset to work with.

Today, we couldn't have asked for a better shot, we had an orange/pink sunset, there was enough light to film, and today managed to give off the effect of "elegance" feel. But we also had to work with the freezing cold, vicious wind, and most importantly, TIME. We knew we wouldn't have enough time to film all of the Lavender shots we wanted, as time wasn't on our side.

Through mass amount of effort, we managed to film brilliant shots of the scenery and our singer together- these shots by far were our favourite. We managed to get side on view of our singer leaning against part of a canape frame in the Lavender fields with the sunset glow next to her, it almost looked like a silhouette of our singer which gave a great vibe of who this mysterious woman might be. We shot plenty of panning shots of our singer whilst she was singing, as well as our prized shot of our singer, spinning around with rose petals falling around her with the sunset in the background- which gave the most relaxed and elegant feel of all our shots.

Post #1- 2nd week of filming (3rd - 9th Oct 2011)

This week, Ashley and I managed to find our singer for our music video, and we went up to London to start the filming process. Yet again, the weather wasn't great, the grey clouds in the sky was unfortunate, but we managed to cope with them.

We aimed to film our singer with very known sceneries such as Palmal, St James' park, London cathedral, London eye, Houses of Parliament, and Buckingham Palace so the viewer could relate to where that is,as London is internationally famous.

This time in London, we wanted most of our London shots if not all of our shots done, so we did many of our shots to do with our singer finding her love in London. London was the only scenery setting where we also did night shots- these shots would be put at the end of the music video to represent the song ending. We used a variety of camera shots such as a pan of when she walks down a pathway in St James' park to show she is a strong able woman, we used two different cameras for the same shot near Buckingham Palace so we could put in two different angled shots in our music video to keep up with the music beat, we used close ups of our singer's face many times to signify that she was being "sexy" at times, and we also used handheld shots to give the impression to the audience that she was being watched from a distance.