Day 7 of Shooting

Yesterday, we refilmed the house scene with more lighting. It was pretty much the same as before only this time we had to hold up a halogen lamp to the ceiling to give the room a better light. It went really well and because we had done it before, so we knew what we were doing and the shoot was much quicker. Now that we have done this we can begin editing properly.   

Problems with the FlipVid

As mentioned in a previous post about our disaster at Leigh on Sea, we were forced to film with a Flip Video camera. The only problem with this is that it films in widescreen, so any footage filmed with it will have a letterbox effect on it. We now have to put the letterbox effect on the rest of our footage when editing so our music video will look like a movie. This isn't ideal but we have no choice.  

Day 6 of Shooting

Today we went to film the scene outside the house where our artist is singing the chorus. We took a variety of shots so that we have a some clips to cut to if we don't have enough footage. We used two flip cameras as one was running out of battery but it was useful having two as we decided to film the same scene from several angles. We are hoping to film the house scene on Thursday as we didn't have good enough lighting so this time we will be using extra lighting.

Review of Footage So Far

Having edited a rough cut of our footage and posted it on our blog, we have got some feedback from our audience. The general comments we got were very positive so we know we're on the right track in terms of editing.

We are happy with our footage so far its helpful seeing it all together as we are better able to spot things we made need to reshoot. For example, after uploading the footage from the house scene we can see that we may need to refilm it because of the poor lighting. We have added a poll onto our blog to get audience feedback on this.

Posted by Maria Grillo