Filming Diary Entry - Wednesday 27th November 2013

Changes made to schedule:

Today, I filmed the footage for my music video at Uphill. The change made was the fact that it was scheduled for last Wednesday (20th November 2013) but unfortunately, the weather was very poor, with strong winds and heavy rain. I decided to film today because of the availability of an assistant and it was my day off college.

Filming:

The filming was all performance, so there was no strict rule to follow, e.g. there were no intertextual reference I had to enact. This footage is part of my lip-sync, so today's filming was vitally important.

The first shot I filmed was the aerial view/establishing and panning shot of Weston-super-Mare. I panned the shot, starting with a zoom in to the pier and slowly panning to the end of Worle. When I come to edit this footage, I will make the footage appear faster by adding in a 'Re-time' effect, which allows me to retime the footage, by making it faster or slower. This was done in effect, as the view is followed by the lyrics, '…I could watch you for a lifetime…' suggesting that I am referring the lyrics to the actual view before. I had no problems filming this shot, as I didn't need an assistant. 

These next 2 shots were filmed on the tower which outlooks the whole of Weston and as afar as Glastonbury and Hinckley Point.
Here in these 2 shots, I lip-synced the verses/chorus from 2 different angles. 
1) A standard mid-shot/panning shot.

2) A high-angle medium close-up shot. 

In my editing, I am aiming to balance the lip-syncing with these 2 shots, in order to balance out the different visuals (You don't have to see the same shot for lip-syncing). I needed an assistant to film this shot for me, as it was a panning shot and not static! Once again for the editing, I need to balance out the static shot from the movement shots, so the viewers feel more interested and don't find it boring!

This shot was very random, as all it was was a static/long shot of me looking out at the view, with the view not seen. This could suggest that this can coincide with the opening lyrics (above) however, this is a reserve shot, so I might not include this shot at all.

Finally, I filmed a mid-shot of me just walking away from the camera, which will be placed right at the end of the clip to signal the end of the story (A cinema… and then walk away!) Another static shot, this was very easy to do and for this, I had my assistant to help me film this. 



This day has been one of my favourite days of filming, as it was filmed outside and I had fun doing this!