Filming: Indoor Shots 1

Our aim for today was to carry out the 'bedroom scene' shots:

"Bedroom Shots (Total of 11 shots = 44 takes)

Location: Milly's House

Estimated time: 1 Hour 30 Minutes (20 minutes set up, due to changes in location around the house and changes in camera angles, 1 hour filming, doing 4 takes of each shot, lighting check, 5 minutes test shots) Cast required: Vince, Sam and Milly"

The first video shoot ran successfully, and all the shots were recorded on a HD digital video camera in the intended location. We did have anticipated lighting issues, as we were unable to get hold of a lighting kit for today's shoot. We managed to overcome these issues, and created a "romantic" mise-en-scene with various lights to exaggerate the ambiance of the scene.

The shoot took less time than anticipated, therefore we managed to film shots for the chorus, where there will be a series of jump cuts with are 'mime' characters miming to the lyrics in the song. We were particularly pleased with these shots as we found an interesting backdrop for the shots which complied with the mise-en-scene for our music video. We also managed to create some stop-motion animation at today's shoot, using a Canon EOS DLSR and a tripod to keep the images smooth and realistic. We then used Windows Movie Maker to get an idea of how it would look when it is edited onto our video. The final outcome of this stop motion clip will be slightly different in the music video as it will be edited in Adobe Premier Pro, where the transition from one image to the next will be slightly faster.

Here are a few pictures of today's video shoot:

This is one of the photographs from one of the stop motion sequences, in which the black tear on Vince's face moves downwards to demonstrate his sadness.

This is the set for our 'bedroom scene'. We chose it for the interesting backdrop and black and white colour scheme which corresponds with the mimes costume and make-up. We added extra lights to make the scene look more ambient and atmospheric.

Our 'make-up artist' Emily doing the face paint for our female protagonist, Milly.