First Day Of Filming

Tuesday 18th October

We began filming a scene from our music video, this scene was the one that involved the main and the male character which was important because it needed to look really realistic and they couldn't lack confidence because it was quite intimate but the reason we decided to use these two people together is because they are both performing arts students as well as friends so the chemistry is already there. For this scene to have an effect on the audience it needed to be filmed outside in a eerie and deserted place to add the creepy atmosphere we wanted, however because it was daylight and quite a sunny day the atmosphere wasn't there but we can add it in when we begin editing by just lowering the brightness and increasing the contrast to make everything look bolder and darker.
Before we went out to film the characters had to get ready, because the main character had a lot more elements to her outfit our male character only had a t shirt that needed to be cut up and made to look mucky which took 5 minutes to do so he was sat around waiting which shouldn't of happened as we should of been more prepared. The main character took way too much time doing her hair and applying make up which meant we only had 30 minutes to film the scene.
The location we used was in an abandoned part of some bushes with a mesh fence in the background perfect for the story we were trying to create, the first take we filmed was of the male character laying on the floor with various camera angles showing viewers that he had been killed/murdered. The next take included the male character laying in the exact same spot now with the main character leaning over him close to the claw and blood marks on he's t shirt suggesting to viewers that she is the one to blame and maybe isn't human due to the damage she had done. The third shot included the male character again staying in the spot but now the song has begun the main character turns away from him and crawls towards the camera making distorted body movements which indicates to the viewers that there's something not right about her, after the beats comes a "rargh" this is when she has reached the camera lens and jolts forward into it while saying that line and making a clawing motion towards the audience. before the next "rargh" she needs to walk back over to the male character and drag him up off the floor while the camera jolts front to back. Before kicking into the first verse where he is seen as the weak character and she is dominating him by feeling he's body and crawling around he's personal space to make him feel uncomfortable but also can't help himself looking at her exposed body.
This is all we got up to in the time period we had, however we shot each take twice to make sure we had a lot of footage to use in the editing stage. The next part of the video involves numerous different people to play victims of the main character who she has killed/attacked in various different places and in different ways.
The only thing we forgot about when filming was to take shots of me and Sophie filming using the equipment and also reki shots of the location and the outfits separately which we will do when we next film the footage. However I believe in the time period we had we did well to get so much done but the main reason for that is because both people got into character immediately and although it was really cold outside they just got on with it.