Final editing

On Monday morning after Aaron had finished the majority of the editing with the new artist Jess and the new shots over weekend which was his role within the group, him and Hayley both had free periods to finish the remaining of the editing. They both decided to change the theme of the video slightly by having it all in black and white as it looked better to fit with the emotional feel the video and to keep the focus on the performances. In addition at the very end of the video, a final ending was decided this is were there are combined clips of the ballet dancer(Grace) and Isabel Beau (Jess) to show that the young girl is Isabel Beau and she is reflecting back on her past through the song. The last image the viewer is left with is the ballet sitting down with only a spot light on her and her face black.

Ballet New Shoot

After school today me, Laxmi, Hayley and Aaron stayed behind to reshoot the ballet scenes for the music video, which were going again to be performed by Grace. Previously in the week we had booked out the drama studio that we required, so we could get the best footage. Aaron filmed some of the footage in a circular motion with Grace dancing around him in a circle and him following her with the camera on a steadicam. By doing this it would give us a more clear movement of Grace's whole body when she was dancing than just certain parts of her, however we also did on getting some head shots of her when she was dancing because we lacked of these when editing for m the first shoot.

In addition we need to get the opening footage for the music video, which had already planned would be grace dancing, however we was not sure what it would specifically be. We all decided on her doing specific ballet moves to the beat of the instrumental before the singing begun, so that when the song began it would a wide shot of her in her ballet outfit.

Narrative Reshoot

After school me and Aaron went to my house again and re shot the some parts of the narrative of my sister playing the young Isabel Beau of her outside waiting for her parents and the reaction of her parents arguing in her room. The shots we got worked well for what we wanted of the many angles we got for her to be cut into the music video and her reaction was more emotional and sad. One of the highlights of her performance was of her crying ifront of us to be able to get this shot for her reaction to all the arguing.

Car Footage - Editing

We uploaded the footage to are draft on final cutpro of the music video so far, we all believed that the footage we shot was a high standard and worked well with the narrative scenes we had already shot. Due to the camera memory card running out of space at the end of the shot before we got the inside car shots we used my IPhone 5 to film one scene inside the car to experiment and see if it would work or not. We went through all the indoor arguing shots and refined them down to our favourites and began to cut them into the video. Overall I believe our music video is coming along well with he constant reshoots we are doing and is giving the group a more positive vibe to work with.

Editing - Dance Scene into Chrous

Me and Hayley uploaded the footage into FinalCut Pro of the dancing and cut certain sections that worked the best and were in focus. We began to look at what parts of the dancing would work best in the song, we agreed that the faster movements and stronger moves would work best for the chorus to show her aggressive emotions and expressing them through her ballet dancing. This really gave us a good head start to editing the footage some more. 

After this me and Aaron stayed behind in lunch and after school to the edit the footage some more for the first chorus of the song. We used the feet and mid shots cutting between them to create it, the footage we used was filmed by Aaron on a hand-held camera. Going over the footage again together, we both discussed what footage to use and when it should cut, and what would work the best visually. Time was spent on making these decisions between the both of us and we had created a 14 second dance piece for part of the first chorus of the song. Also the pace of the cut and her dancing worked well with the beat/pace of the song as well, it really works well. This is only a very small piece of footage within in the whole of the music video but I think now we have set ourselves a standard and quality of filming and editing that we should be producing through the project. In addition our original idea to have the young girls scenes all in black and white, by changing it to desaturated, it really work well for the ballet dancing.

This is the 14 seconds of footage we edited:

Music Video - Dancing Scenes

As me and Hayley were both at work when we had planned to shoot the dance scenes with Grace, Aaron and Laxmi were still there to film. The big drama hall we had planned to film these scenes in for weeks we found was double booked so they had to relocate and they went to a smaller drama hall. There was downfalls to using this smaller drama room, they was no access spotlights which we had planned to used and a studio lamp was used instead. The footage the pair of them got so really good and well thought out footage we will have to reshoot some of the scenes again because not enough wide shots of her whole body dancing because of the space in the room. However this has given us a brilliant basis to reshot and refine the music video.

Grace's dancing looking at the footage is to a high standard and the costume worked well with he being I all white ballet outfit, and this worked well against the darkness of the room. The camera used for the shoot was a D500 with a 50mm lens however this was not the best one to use because it gave a grainy effect to the footage, next time from the test shoots we did previously we are definitely going to use the D1200 to make it more professional.

New Planner for Shooting

After the screening session in Wednesday's lesson we created a new extended calendar for when to shoot which is a rough plan depending on the flexibility of Poppy and Grace. We have planned so far ahead because the amount of film we need to produce for the next screening before half term.

 

Narrative Filming - Young Girl

On Tuesday after school we planned to film the some narrative parts of the music video, where the young girl played by, Grace. The footage we got mainly was based around the idea of her  waiting for her dad after her ballet lesson and he has not yet arrived, and this shows the passing of time of her waiting in the cold for him and her emotions towards this. I was directing Grace on certain facial expressions to pull and her body movement so that Aaron could get various different shots of her doing it. Laxmi was making sure the mise en scene and also the  visual look of the footage was what we desired whilst we was filming.

We got shots mostly outdoors but we got few shots indoors of her before she goes to dance lesson for an example: doing up her laces on her trainers. When it came to the end of the shoot we began to film some indoor shots in the young girls bedroom, however this did not fully continue after the battery for the camera died. next time we are going to take batteries to every shoot. Overall I believe Grace worked hard and communicated well with us as a team while acting and we got some good shots because of her and are hard work.