Introduction

My name is Thakshana Yogeswaran and I am a media student at The Latymer School. My candidate number is 9179.

I am working in Group 3 with Gift Emesi (9044), Angela Chen (9025) and Monica Aghadiuno (9365)

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Group 3 - Music Video

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Monday 21 December 2015

Construction Post 2: Days 4-6 of Music Video Shoot

Our main aims for days 4-6:
  • Film my individual shots with the scaffolding backdrop
  • Film all of our shots with our guys
  • Film the dinner table scenes
  • Review all our footage and make decisions on whether or not we need any re-shoots
  • Film any retakes of any shot that we didn't like
Day 4 - Thursday 26th November 2015

Our main objective for today's shoot was to get all the footage with our individual guys and we managed to get all the footage with the guys for Monica, Gift and Angela. However, the actor that was supposed to be my 'love interest' couldn't come due to unavoidable circumstances. We therefore had to come together as a group and make some changes to our shoot schedule. Now that we had a bit of extra time on today's shoot, we decided to film some experimental shots.





Previously, we encountered a problem with our black background with white strobes set up so we thought as a solution we would opt for a lighter background so that you can see our faces but still keep the white strobes. To your left is one of the takes we took with annotations.







In one of our previous filming days, we shot Angela's individual scene in two different ways; one with the spotlight directly on her and the lasers behind her and one with the spotlight pointed slightly away from her so that her face is still lit but the lasers are also more prominent.

We also filmed her scene with her guy in those two different ways so that we could ask for people's opinion on which one looked better because we weren't sure. We showed a couple of people two different versions of the footage of Angela and Mario and wrote down their feedback.






Upon hearing feedback from a variety of different people, including our media technician, Emma, we came to the conclusion that the one where the spotlight isn't directly on them looks a lot better. Some things that people said were:
"The second option looks a lot better because there are no shadows behind them." 
"The lasers are a lot clearer in the second one so the effect from them is stronger"
"In the first one, the lasers blend into the background and I didn't really notice them at all"




Day 5 - Friday 27th November 2015

The main focus for this day was to film all my individual shots in front of the scaffolding and also get all our group shots done as well. This was also the day where we had time to reshoot shots that we didn't all 100% like or shots that didn't turn out the way we envisioned.

We started with our group shots in front of the scaffolding:



On the left is a picture of us setting up the scaffolding without lighting and on the right is the whole setup done including lighting.




The shoot today went really smoothly and we got all the shots that we wanted and we also had a chance to reshoot some stuff that we didn't really like. This was our last full day of shooting so at the end of it we also had a brief group meeting with the schedule and discussed the schedule for Saturday. Since my shots with Aaron hadn't been filmed yet, it meant that we had to adjust the original schedule meaning that we had an earlier call time, which we were all fine with.

Day 6 - Saturday 28th November 2015

This was our final day of shooting! The prospect of it being the final day was both exciting and really nerve-wrecking
Here is a part of our shoot schedule for the final day of shooting. 



We started off the day by filming my shots with Aaron. At first we were really struggling to get into it because my verse in the song is quite long so we had to find things to do to fill out that time but not make it boring or draggy at the same time.

It was also hard to light this scene because I started off on the ladder and then walked down and me and him were also walking around the set.

I have shown an example of one of the first takes which isn't very good and is also lit very badly:



Initially, we were confused about how to light it but in the end we figured it out and had two floor lights on either side fully flooded to light the whole set. Even though there was a bit of a struggle at the beginning, we all managed to come together as a group to figure stuff out for Aaron and I to do and in the end I think our shots turned out pretty well.
I have included one of the good takes below:


The last and final scene we had to film was the dinner table scene. This scene was pretty easy to film but if we had the chance to do it again I would add some plates and cutlery to the table to make it look less empty and more realistic. Some of the guys also forgot to bring a white shirt so half of them were wearing black whereas the other half were wearing white so that looked a bit odd. This was an error on our parts because we should've reminded our actors the night before.

We also tried to take some artsy shots as shown below:

The focus on the wine in the glass is really sharp and although Monica's arm is in it the focus is drawn fully to the wine.



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