Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Filming Day 3

We decided to use a different location to film the shots of me falling asleep so that wonderland looks more exciting. Yaz filmed me lying on the bench with the camera off the tripod as she had the steadiest camera work, we did this a few times to make sure I was in a similar position to when I wake up in wonderland.

The camera then went on the tripod to film a mid-shot of me eating the cheese and pretending to take a piriton tablet, for storyboard number 5.5. Yasmin and Paul took it in turns to film throughout the day as I was in all the shots. We added a close-up of me yawning so me lying down and falling asleep didn't look so random.

We then shot a long shot of me dream fighting and Paul and Yaz waking me up this was so everyone could be seen at once without any heads being cut off.

Friday, 7 January 2011

Filming Day 2

We decided to film in west park for the Alice in Wonderland part of our music video. Again we had another problem one of our actors didn't show up so we had to rope someone in at the last minute.

Costumes: We were all dressed in our character costumes which are described on a separate post.

We filmed storyboard numbers 6-9. This took us a while as we wanted to make sure we had a variety of shots to work with in the editing process. We also added a pan of the park to show my character's realisation of her surrounds, that she is now in "wonderland". We wanted it to be shaking to so Alice has just woken up. Paul filmed shot 8; Alice meeting the Cheshire cat. We experimented with different shots like close-ups, mid-shots and upwards parts as we wanted our video to look as interesting as possible. Alice following the Cheshire cat was also difficult to film as The Cheshire Cat disappears and we had to get out timings and positions just right. Yaz filmed me lying on the bench and we all had input with the caterpillar part. As we were all in storyboard number 9 we put the camera on a tripod this was a mid-long shot.