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Monday, 15 November 2010

PRACTISE FILMING

We decided to do some practise filming before we got all of our equipment and started filming our music video. These shots allowed us to experiment with different camera angles and editing to music, they also gave us an over view of some of the ideas we might like to use in the real thing.
The opening 'Argument' inspired us to film the characters actually fighting, not just shadows in low contrast lighting, although we are laughing half of the time and the emotion displayed does not have the same affect we felt it looked really effective to have our protagonist's bad relationship shown more explicitly to the audience. The second argument sequence, in front of the wall, we felt was particularly effective as it presented a really negative and almost desperate atmosphere to the scene (which is what we were hoping to achieve)I personally like the way in which the characters are shouting but you cannot hear them, I feel that this heightens the sense of helplessness our protagonist feels, almost as if nobody can hear her.
The 'running' shot provided us a number of difficulties when filming. It was difficult to run with a hand-held and keep the camera relatively steady, also it was harder for the person filming to keep up with my running, as they were having to concentrate more, we thought that we would try to overcome this by using a shopping trolley. This allowed us to keep the camera steady whilst moving but was not ideal for speed, another option is to use a car and have somebody film out the window, this will keep the camera steady and keep up with the protagonists pace.