Day Five on Location

Day Five on Location

Today was the final day of shooting as I managed to get two scenes done in the time we were filming. This was because the locations were very close to each other and allowed us to work quickly and swiftly between the two. When filming the weather wasn’t on our side as it was close to raining, this meant that we had to be very quick when filming. However we were able to experiment with a variety of new shots and ideas, an example would be the ‘swing’ shot as Charlotte walked past the camera. This meant having the shot upright and normal then swinging it below to create an upside down effect emphasising the fact that dimensions here may not be all they seem.

Schedule Update

Schedule Update

As I have a few weeks left to finish filming before any re-takes are done I have decided to post an updated version of my schedule, it has ben updated to syncronise my starting filming dates on both the blog and the schedule. Also I have changed some of the scene ideas as some were practically unable to happen, and finally I have changed the deadline date as it is at the 12^th of December rather than the 2^nd.

Editing Day Four

Editing Day Four

Today I edited the section that was filmed in the classroom. As I wanted each of my scenes to have a different quality to them I decided to give this scene a darker feel to it by making everything seem fine to it at first then for it to suddenly go out of control and become a nightmare. I also wanted to experiment with using lower shots and this really paid off in the editing process as it gave a different feel about it, I think that this is still sticking to my idea of showing differentiation in my scenes.

Day Four on Location

Day Four on Location

Today the third scene in the sequence was filmed; I felt that I should keep this in the school still to give more of a lasting impression and to explore new ways of turning normal school life into a fear or hell. To do this I focused on the more human aspect of school, so rather than basing it in the corridors of the school, I set the scene in the classroom giving it a more personal feel to it, as if we are looking into her and starting to realise what is happening to her. This scene I thought would be good to have students for my lead actress charlotte to interact with, so a typical lesson setting with classmates talking gives this scene a sense of realism. The only complication of filming today was finding the actors to film with as not many were available, however this problem was solved and I managed to get sufficient actors.  

Day Three on Location and Editing

Day Three on Location and Editing

Today I filmed the second part of the music video; I had the idea of demons in a school a while back and thought it would be a good element to have in this abstract video. With charlotte playing the main character I wanted to add some more abnormal effects, in this section I thought of the idea of the world ‘glitching’ and at different points it would jump from one point to another as if it was breaking. This went to plan apart from a few shots where the rest of my actors did find it hard to not corpse whilst filming.

Whilst editing to create the glitching effect i cut certain images down to millisecond length and put them close together making it seem as if the world this was taking place was breaking. Whilst editing i encountered no problems making it a very successful edit.

First Cut

First Cut

Below is my first cut of the music video, this isn’t the fully finished version as I haven’t gotten all of the shots to complete the song. However I am pleased with the outcome so far as it still follows the original plot line of fear and paranoia that was created for it, this plot line has allowed me to experiment in many different ways of how create fear not only within the video itself but in the audience who watch it.

 

Unfortunately my first cut is unable to import onto blogger so it is unable to be shown at this time.

Schedule Update

Schedule Update

Over the past few weeks I have been filming and editing my music video but to make sure I’m on track I have been sticking to my schedule and have allowed a week or two for anything to go wrong. As you can see below I didn’t start editing until the third week, this is due to technical malfunctions along with my actors being unable to film at the time. However I have managed to catch up with both filming and editing and am close to completing a first full draft of the video.