2nd shotlist

1. istop motion of sweet snakes-get blank piece of paper to lay on table and link camera up to mac.

2. Onto field- shots of 'the strangers' and 'the girl'.

3. The courtyard- 'the girl'.

4.G block corridor- shots of 'the strangers' holding up cards saying 'i do not love you'.

...if we have time...

5. shoot more close up shots of 'the strangers'.

shooting- second time round

Although we managed to get a wide range of shots first time round filming, we were concerned we don't have enough footage to fill the whole track. Therefor we are having to have to shoot once more. We will shoot on campus in lesson time to save time. The shots were are planning to film are:

-i stop motion of sweet snakes.

-re-do the shots of 'the strangers' holding up the signs saying 'i do not lot love you'. This is because the lighting of the shot is too dark and also the writing on the cards is not very clear.

-shots of 'the strangers' in the courtyard, and general close up shots of our faces.

-Shots of Ella (possible location=the field)

the shoot- take 1

On Wednesday 8th October we arranged to shoot our video project. We aimed to leave college at 2.40pm however with having to wait for the cameras to arrive we did not leave until nearer to 3.00pm. with having a quite concise shot list and times of shooting each shot it meant that we were slightly behind schedule. However on arriving town, we met on Christ's piece and got straight to it. We began by filming the shots of Ella on her own, including the spinning around shot, some shots of her on the ground covererd in sweet snakes and then some shots of her walking down an alley way. we were very pleased with the way each of these shots looked. We then began shooting some shots of the rest of us, wearing our hoodies again walking down the alley way. For the majority of our shots we made sure that we used the tripod in order to achieve more effective, steady shots.
After filming down the alley way we made our way to the indoor shopping centre where we filmed a hand held shot of Ella from above. we were really pleased with the way this shot turned out.
Although we tried our best to stick to our original shot list, when we began filming we had lots more original ideas which we then incorporated this consequently made us slightly behind schedule.
We then left town and made our way to Ella's house. we managed to film all of the shots that we were hoping to and they all turned out well. we shot ella in the bed having a nightmare, her making the way down the stairs and her in the bathroom. it was here that we also mainly focused on the 'hooded figures' shooting many shots of them and dojng some lip syncing to certain lyrics, in time with the song.
Overall, we were very pleased with the way inwhich the shoot went, however, when getting back to college to begin editing, we realise that in fact we have not got enough footage and we may need to shoot some more.

ROUGH CUT

time line for shooting!

2.40- pick up carmera

TOWN:

3.30- arrive in town, do makeup and put on costumes ( grand arcade toiltes)

3.40- 'spinning around' shot (christ piece)

3.45- Ella lying on floor, the 3 strangers (Lizzie, Ana, Daniele), looking down on her

3.50- Ella walking through the Grand arcade in a slow and dreamy manner

HOUSE:

4.25- 'i do not love you' shot, paper on the wall, ripped down to reveal lyrics

4.35- Ella in bed (as if having a nightmare)

4.40-Ella walking towards mirror, sweet snakes in hand (dropping some) gets to the bathroom, snakes in sink, looks down again, snakes have gone. Ella rights on mirror 'i do not love you' in red lipstick.

5.00- shot of s strangers, slowly panning left to right of bottom of faces. Shot of the 3 strangers mouthing to words 'buy it buy it buy it buy it'.

5.20- shot of one of the strangers holding plain piece of paper.

5.25- istop motion of sweet snakes moving around.

5.40- shot of Ella leaving house, disorientated and slowly in pajamas, as she gets outside shes suddenly clothed.

Blog feedback

the groups came round and analysed our blog. they all said that there was nothing noticeably missing, however we have decided to incorporate a list of mise en scene.

Good points: location research was effective. and the 'what next' post.
we carried out some test footage.
good detail in most sections and detailed shot list.
we developed the idea since

To improve: Carry out a list of mise en scene.
alo give specific references to where we found or information on the band.
and more detailed reasons why we shot what we did.

Mise en scene

Costume=
3 randomers- black hoodies and colorful face paint.
the girl-pajamas

lighting=
in room- dark (as if night time)
Outdoors in town- dusky

props=
mirrors, snakes(maybe),lamp.

cinematography=
istop motion, zoom in/out, spiraling in...

editing=
lip syncing. lyrics in fitting to music, different effects using final cut

Shooting

We are hoping to book the cameras out on Tuesday 7th of October after college and Wednesday 8th of October.
we will hopefully get the majority or four shooting done over these two days as the rough cut for our project must be in by the end of our lesson on 10th October.

test footage

Yesterday we shot some test footage of the shots which we were most worried about shooting. this was the 'spinning around' shot which we were plnning on filming in town to show the situation the girl was going through.
we wanted to know whether the shot would work better by the person turning holding the camera, or whether it looked better if somebody else filmed the shot by circling the 'girl' with the camera. the idea we wanted to create was the idea that girl was still but the world her was moving.