First Part Of Filming Analysis - Sunday 24th January

Me and Nathan spent a day filming the performance part of our music video, using Charlotte as the female singer in the piece, and Nathan as the male. We used a barn-type building for this, as we wanted it to be messy, to have the brickwork walls in the background, and the dusty floor in shot.

It took around an hour and a half getting Charlotte ready; to fit the discussion that Georgia, Nathan and I had previously had on what we would like her to look like in terms of hair and make-up. We had decided on using a messy or curly/wavey hairstyle with minimal make-up on the face, excluding the eyes; on which we liked the idea of heavy dark make-up.

It took a long time getting the area ready for what we had proposed to do, Nathan had to sweep up to make sure that the ground was quite level and to minimise the amount of dirt and dust that we would get on the equipment and ourselves! We then had to lay down large wooden boards so that when we placed the camera tripod on it, it would appear to be more level and stable.

We then had to back a van onto the set that we had put a generator in so that we could plug strong lights in to use on the set; as artificial light works better on camera than just relying on natural light. Also, in terms of continuity; as it took many hours to film the shots that we achieved to get finished, we needed to have the same strength of light throughout the filming, rather than letting it get darker and ruining the continuity of the filming.

We used two larger lights, kind of like 'spotlights'; one facing in each direction from either side of the set. We also had three sets of fairy lights on the floor across the area- but only had one set turned on.

We put two stools, a microphone and stand, two guitars and stands, two amplifiers and a large box also in the area that we were using for our filming. I made a plan of the area set up shortly after Nathan and I had set it up for the first time. This prevented me from forgetting how it was set up previously, and this helped with the continuity between the different days in which we were filming at the location.

A shot of the actual area set up for filming. On the right hand-side of the photograph, a canister can be seen holding one of the spotlights that we were using to ensure that the area was lit adequately. Nathan and I had to decide how to layout the area in which we would be filming on the day, as we could not previously decide what would look best in which place. I think we designed the set for the filming effectively.