Yesterday's filming in the Drama Hall

After school, I met up with Ellie as we planned to film in the Drama Hall after school with the spotlight as it was free. She told me that after school she had to go see a teacher but it would be quite quick so she can film afterwards. She also told me that she left her locker key at home as her outfit was still in the locker so we had to go back to Ellie's house to get it. After Ellie saw her teacher, we went back to her house to get her key which did not take long to get there as her house is near school and took about 5 minutes to walk there which was an advantage, giving me more time to film. When we got back to school, Ellie changed into her outfit and we went to the Drama Hall. The Drama teacher was in there which was good and helped us put the spotlight on.

I then filmed Ellie sitting on a chair which would go at the beginning of the song where the lyrics go, 'I'm just a little bit' so it is like a start of a performance. I then plan to film Ellie in the park bench sitting in the middle of my other two actresses to match the lyrics of 'caught in the middle'. With the scene of the Drama Hall first and then cutting to the park bench, makes it more interesting and would draw in the audience more as they would not know what to expect. When filming Ellie on the chair in the Drama Hall, I got her looking down then looking up to the camera as I plan to start the music video of my actress looking down and when the song starts, I will have her looking up to the camera so she is more connected with the audience. Filming this, took many attempts, as when looking back at the footage, she looked really nervous. I also filmed a range of shots with her turning to the camera slowly and also quickly so when editing, I can see which shots would work best.

After filming the shots for the first part of the song, I then had to film the end part of the video in the Drama Hall so that it looks as though it is the end of the performance. I had her lip syncing the lines, 'just enjoy the show' and I filmed a close up shot of her face as I plan to edit it so that when filming in the park, I would also film a close up of her face, lip syncing these lines so that it would cut back easily to the Drama Hall for the ending. I then zoomed out of the shot so that it looked more of an ending and made the video more interesting.

I then filmed the spotlight for the 2nd verse of the song where it made a reference to the spotlight. I plan to edit shots over the top of the spotlight so it would make it more creative.

I have now uploaded the footage onto my Mac so that I would be ready to edit in the lesson.