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Here's videos of me talking about the first day of filming. For some odd reason it stopped recording half way through so I had to divide it into two videos.

Music video: Preparation for filming

Here is a final collage before and after of the hair & make-up of our female pretagonist, Irmina.

Music video: Equipment

 This is a collage of the equipment we used for filming, make up and hair products, chess game and pieces (in the box) and a step-by-step list/guide of what we need to film.

Music video: Locations & actors

A collage of the three filming locations: drama pod, pathway (extra location)& beckton hill (order as above). Also, an image of our chosen characters - Irmina & Vlad, in the final location, Karolina's house.

Music video: Step-by-step guide for filming

1	Frozen image (mid shot, tight mid-shot, close up) “d d d”
2	Frozen image (tight mid-shot, close up) “dominate”
3	Cross cut to chess game, side shot, crane movement
4	3 screens – 1 – Irmina low angle, front and side + a point of view shot from the male. 2 – looking at the chess piece. 3 – taking a good move (high angle, side shot, front)
5	Low angle, long shot of Irmina, which cuts to a mid-shot “I create”.
6	Extreme close up of her finger, spinning camera movement.
7	Frozen image (mid-shot, tight mid shot, close up) “l l l”
8	Frozen image (tight mid-shot, close up) “love is great”
9	High angle of the chess game, panning movement of the game.
10	Tight frame, mid shot of the game scene.
11	Frozen image (mid-shot, tight mid-shot, close up) on the chair with a chess piece “the the the silly game”
12	“You’ll come back for more” will be a mid-shot + close up of Irmina wagging her finger to show coming back.
13	“Read me a poetry” – bed room
14	“When I’m out there” Beckton hill
15	“Sweep me of my feet” Vlad knocking down chess piece – extreme close up, low angle.
16	“When I’m out there, it’s good to know I’m free, when I’m out there”” Beckton hill
17	Low angle of Vlad
18	“When I’m out there” Beckton hill
19	Reaction shot of Irmina “wtf”
20	“Come on and take my seat” ellipsis (Nicole)
21	“Upside down” – long shot, close up, mid-shot”
22	“Let me see the way you work it boy” – cross cuts, point of view, mid shots + low angle.
23	“Extreme close up of Vlad making a good move”
24	Disappointed reaction shot from Irmina
25	“Turn it around” mirror effect + shadow of both playing the game.
26	“You’ll be hoping I’ll be good” performance. (All angles + shots)  - whole song
27	“My name is Eveline, let’s party over night” close up/performance.
28	“Frozen image (mid shot, tight mid-shot, close up) “ex ex ex”
29	“Frozen image (tight mid-shot, close up) “extraordinary”
30	“You have been worse for well” – standing (Nicole)
31	Film white screen.
32	“This is how we aim, when I’m a millionaire” – performance.
33	“Follow me everywhere, except I could not care, when you scream my name” – Vlad following Irmina.
34	“Except I could not care” close up, attitude
35	“Read me a poetry” – bed room
36	Dancing about.
37	Irmina stands and knocks everything over, point of view fromVlad, tilt up to Irmina standing, a side shot.
38	“It’s good to know I’m free” – performance + dancing.
39	“Get up on your feet” Irmina stands from sitting.
39	Chorus – performance, cross cut to chess.
40	“It’s a men’s world” Vlad wins the game
41	Performance, tilt up of Irmina standing.
42	Film, Irmina walking down the road, strong.
43	“We’re taking” Irmina pulling Vlad.
44	“it’s a men’s world” Vlad looking at Irmina.
45	Irmina finger of Vlad’s face, him just looking at her.
46	Irmina long shot, walking towards the camera. + low angle
47	Irmina making Vlad smile.
48	“Spin, turn it around” spinning head movement.

This is a step-by-step list/guide that we will need to film in the drama pod. We will print this off and tick as we go along just to make sure we get all the shots we need.

Music video: Emailing & booking the drama pod

Once again, here is some proof of booking the drama pod for filming.

Music video: Consent forms from actors

These are consent form both our actors had to sign before filming.

Music video: Emailing & organising

Here is some further proof of emailing and organising, making sure the actors are aware of the dates and outfits they need for each day.

Music video: Booking equipment

This is evidence of booking equipment for filming our actual music video on the 22^nd of November.

Music video: Test shoot - my role

My role for the test shoot was the organisation. I was in charge of setting up the actors, emailing and sorting out everything, like the date, time and place. After, I had to upload the test shoot and embed it onto my blogger. We only managed to do a test shoot of the scenes at home as we didn’t yet have the costumes, props and equipment necessary for the main part of the video. Although the test shoot was quiteshort, we learnt that we need to be a little more organised in gathering the props and equipment. We also learnt that next time we need to film earlier in the day to get more of the natural lighting. We found that using a trip-pod would also make the overall filming better as the footage will be still. A benefit of the test shoot was also that we saw that the actors speaking and acting “normal” during filming looks good asit makes it more realistic and makes it seem as though they don’t know they are beingfilmed, which is the aim and these scenes are supposed to be flashbacks.Overall, I think that doing the test shoot was helpful in learning to be more organised and it showed us just how much time and patience we will need to create the whole music video.

Music video: Test shoot part two

And here is the second one. Although they're quite short, they were a great help!

Music video: Test shoot part one

Here is the first shoot we did.

Music video: Test shoot

 

 

Today we did a test shoot which went really well. The shoot went on at Karolina’s house, and although we only managed to shoot a little bit of the whole video, we saw that the idea is going to work great. From doing the test shoot, we learnt that we will need to shoot this scene quite early (before it gets dark outside) otherwise the lighting in the room will be quite poor which will affect the quality of our video.

We also learnt that we have made a great decision when it comes to our actors, as even though they have just met, their acting skills made them very comfortable with each other, which looked much better on the camera, rather than having actors who are really awkward together, as they have to pretend to be in a relationship.

The actors displayed a great enthusiasm which was also great to see as it made us even more excited for the filming. I am very pleased with the actors we have chosen, the final piece should be amazing!

Emailing & organising: Test shoot

 

Here we have some proof of emailing and organising with our actors, which we did before the actual filming and meet up.

Music video: Personnel contact list

Name	E-mail address	Telephone number	Role
Irmina Tchorzewska	irminat@yahoo.co.uk	07984636331	Main character, editor
Karolina Sertvytyte	Karolina.servtytyte@me.com	07402088838	Main director/producer
Vlad Putjatins	Vladputt@gmail.com	07738366235	Main male character

Again, here we have a personnel contact list. Numbers and e-mails of our members.