Sunday 4 December 2011

Friday 2 December 2011

Video Shoot: Behind the Scenes

Last night I did my first shoot for the video, using three out of my four models (as one of them could not make it, but I will use her in the re-shoot I am planning to do after the Christmas holidays). As well as having a camera for myself to film the footage for the music video, I gave my models a camera to take some 'behind the scenes' photos of the work I was doing. Here are some of those photos...


 As well as having my three models - Daniella, Becca, and Verity - I also had my assistant Megan on hand. One of the things she did to help me was playing and pausing the song at the appropriate timings, and scrolling the lyrics on the projector screen behind us, so that when the models needed to mouth the lyrics of the song, they had the screen to refer to.



These two photos show me discussing with Becca the camera position and angles, as I wanted to ensure that the image I recorded was only of her lips, but she also needed to be in focus. This made it difficult as I had to make sure that Becca did not move backwards or forwards too much when mouthing the words.


As I mentioned earlier, I used the projector screen behind us to display the lyrics for the models to read, but in between takes Megan put up my shot list so that I could make sure I was following my plan. We crossed off each shot after we had done it, meaning when I do my re-shoot I will know exactly which shots need to be done.