The Day and How it Went

So... First day of filming and we tried to shoot everything we planned for and had drew up in the storyboard for the sections we needed. We managed to get loads done and a little more than we expected/planned for. It was our first lot so we were very excited to get stuck in and start the video. We focused a lot on close ups of Claudia and introducing the audience to her. Doing the practice filming of Claudia before hand was a massive benefit as we had a better understanding of what looked good and what wasn't appropriate for the shot – including lighting, angle, background etc…

By using a lot of close-ups it meant when we begin to edit the footage we could use a lot of cuts to fit with the beat of the song. It turned out that collectively we filmed more than triple of what we planned on our storyboard; however we kind of expected this as it is our first time making a music video and it’s something we can lean from for future planning. We used our time wisely and efficiently and managed to get everything finished without rushing. What probably took the most amount of time was doing Claudia’s hair and make-up! The only overall problem we massively faced was the plug in spot light. We were able to hire it from our school, despite it being slightly faulty. There was something in the switch that was unconnected and made it switch of without even touching it.
However… We managed to use this to our advantage! Even though it was a massive distraction being in a dark room and this massive, bright spot light flickering on and off I told Claudia as I was filming to carry on acting and it turned out to look very superb. :-) The two smaller images below are from some of the filming from this day. The one on the left shows Claudia laying down and the camera filming from bird's eye view.
After filming we realised we didn't like this shot as all. The angle of the camera and Claudia laying down made it harder for her to song and pulled a strange face that we thought people would possibly laugh - especially people who know her.

The image on the right is extremely spooky. We used a projector to create this visual. The room was dark and the light projector was simply sitting underneath Claudia. Some of the light was a subtle light blue or white and this had more of an effect, however we decided not to use it because the shadows which were formed on Claudia's face made her features look distorted. Overall we are extremely pleased with what we go from our first day of filming - now all the footage has been sorted out I can begin to edit each other clips. This means a lot of cutting and moving around. Because we were able to film so much and wanted so much it just meant a lot of time and concentration. Especially for the 'clicks' - the click of Claudia's hand had to match exactly with the click in the song which was very hard to do and took a lot of patience.