Grading

The pictures below show the before and after effect of our grading on the video. These are stills from the three main scenes in the video. We wanted the colour of the video to be vibrant and exciting to watch.

The paint scenes were definitely the hardest ones to grade as they were filmed on three different cameras. This meant that getting all of the footage to look the same quality was very hard but we wanted to make the colours in the paint really stand out. Another limiting factor for these scenes was that they were filmed outside and unfortunately one day was much sunnier than the other, this meant that footage for the first day was much brighter and more colourful. To make the footage from the two different days more equal we used tools such as Procamp and the Three-Way-Colour corrector on Premier Pro.

Editing

This video shows a trial we did when editing the paint scenes.



This video shows a trial we did as a group of the editing of the end of the video.

Audience Feedback

We filmed an interview with Izzie - a member of our primary target audience; we asked her on her opinions on the music video, the website, and the album art.

We asked our friend Gavin, a member of our secondary target audience, if he could take part in some audience feedback for us. We showed him the video as it currently stands, which is not yet completely finished, and this is a clip of the feedback he gave us. We filmed him whilst he watched the video to show us how he honestly reacted, and then afterwards we asked him several questions about the video.

Website

These are images of how the first website that we created looked.

Shoot 16/11 - Main Performance Scene

This was our weekend slot for filming in the studio so we decided to film our performance scenes with all three of our actors; this was the first time that we had all filmed together. It was a good thing that they had each had practice on our previous shoots so they now felt more comfortable performing in front of the camera. 

On set with our three actors, whilst using the glide cam.

I feel as though we had really planned this shoot day well and so it was much easier for us to keep to our schedule as we were well organised now after learning from previous shoots. We were extremely happy with how well our actors bonded, and we really hoped that the chemistry and friendship came across on screen too.

A picture I took of my other group members in discussion on set. 

We managed to finish earlier than we expected so we started taking some promotional shots of the actors, having a mixture of serious, more posed photos, along with having some more fun and playful shots of them together.

One of our promo shots that I took that day.

Maisie and Chris making props.

During our shoot we also began making props for the shoot on the following day, to save time.

Maisie and Chris making the stork of our balloon mushroom.

Shoot on 11/11 - Performance Scenes

This was the first shoot we did for our performance scenes; due to scheduling issues only the two DJs were available for filming on this day, so we had to film without Georgie in the scene. This scene definitely took a lot longer to set up than we had initially anticipated. We particularly had difficulty with getting the lighting exactly how we wanted it to look. Although we had already chosen a lighting set up for this scene and saved in on the lighting desk, we still had complications, we wanted the two DJs to be in blue light, and for Georgie in the centre of the scene to be in pink light. Although Georgie was not there we still needed for her lights to to be on so that the scene would look the same for when she is there. We had to manually move all of the lights individually so they were hitting the right spots in the scene, 

Trying to find a nice camera angle for a close up shot of Gavin,

It was particularly difficult to keep the boys under blue light without making them too dark. We had to spotlight both Gavin and Eugene but we definitely had problems with ensuring that they were light enough to see them clearly on camera. In the end we had to use back lights to light the two boys as we could not get enough light from the lights at the front.

Chris, our technician helping us put up some props.

The props set up for the performance scene.

For this scene we asked our media technician to help us with hanging up our cards; we used 'invisible wire' to hang the cards from the lighting rigs above the studio floor. We chose to hang the cards at different heights to fill the space more, and create an interesting background. We had to spotlight each of the cards individually without lighting the black backdrop behind them, so that it would stay as black as possible on screen, and not show the curtain.

Although we came across many issues on this shoot day during the setting up stage, we were able to create a good filming environment once our actors arrived and we were ready to begin filming. We played the music really loudly and asked our actors to put energy into their performance as if they were real DJs. They co operated with us really well, and we even tried using a glide cam to get some more interesting shots of the two of them.

After looking back at our footage from that day I think that the shots we got whilst using the glide cam were slightly disappointing as it was so difficult to control and none of us had used one before, but we managed to get several usable shots. Another thing that we noticed was that sometimes our actors were not moving to the beat of our song because we were playing other songs on the speakers.

First Shoot - 6/11 - White Scenes

Our first day of shooting in the studio was on the 6th of November, where we wanted to film all of our opening white scenes. This is the introduction of the video where our protagonist Georgie, first enters into a big white room which is empty apart from a table in the centre which displays a single cupcake. Georgie sees the cupcake and proceeds to eat it, marking the start of her journey in her head throughout the music video.

This scene required bright white lighting, so it did not take too long to set up, we just had to ensure that the cupcake was well lit, as well as Georgie for her long shots and her close ups, as she moved closer to the table. We only had two cupcakes and so we had to make sure that we got the shot of Georgie biting into the cupcake in the first go so that we wouldn't have to use the spare, or re-shoot. 

The hair and make up for this scene was rather simple as we just wanted an every-day, casual look for Georgie. We decided to keep her hair natural, and her make up quite basic.

This was our first time shooting as a group as well as with Georgie. I found that we all worked together efficiently on set, everyone arrived at the right times and we were able to have fun whilst maintaining a professional working environment.

After the shoot I felt really positive about the work that we had done that day, but after looking back at our footage there are definitely several things I would have changed. We all agreed that we should have got more shots from different angles as there is one jump in our framing that goes from a mid-long shot to a close up which looks odd next to each other. I also think maybe we should have established her reasoning for eating the cupcake, maybe we could have possibly used an 'Eat Me' label, similar to the 'Drink Me' labels used in Alice in Wonderland.