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Friday
This weekend, Mark and I decided to film all the footage which we needed to fill in the gaps in our music video.
After two weeks of filming stop motion animation and performance based shots, later capturing and editing them, we knew what needed to be done or re-done, because the stop motion and the performance only occupied roughly half of the song, thus we had to film a lot more. On Friday, we collected the camera and tripod and both headed back to my house.
Here we decided to film all of the make up shots which we would later put in stop motion, hiring my mother to paint my face with eye liner, forming a variety of patterns, as Mark decided he wasn’t as crafty with the make up kit as he originally thought.
The shoot was successful, and we also managed to shoot a variety of filler shots, including one where mark threw leaves on my face which we wanted to put in reverse time so they appear to be flying off, as well as a time lapse, where the trees were silhouetted against the sky, capturing the transition from day to night.
Saturday
We decided to get up early so that we could capture the majority of our footage in the light, as it was coming to the time of year when it became dark very quickly. Filming early also ensured that if we had to re-do shots that we weren’t happy with, we would have enough time to do so later on in the day.
We started out by filming the ‘building' of the snake, depicting the three individual sheets which make up the snake moving independently, with shots of them each rolling up in stop motion, plaiting together, and later having the sock ‘head’ move towards the plaited sheets, giving the snake life. This shoot took very long and was very strenuous, as we had to move each sheet individually which took three times longer than when we had been moving only the snake.
We tried to achieve as many angles as possible, using high and low angles, as well as pans and tilts showing the creation take shape.
When we headed home after a long day filming we decided to stop and quickly record some filler shots in the woodland, simply of panning and tilting around.
The shoot was successful as the weather meant that we could film all day, and we were now confident in the fact that roughly the first third of our video had been filmed.
Sunday
On the final day of shooting in the weekend, we decided to try and shoot all of the performance, as well as the door, but we knew we would have to work fast as we both had our own commitments at one o’clock, thus another day of early filming begun.
We headed to the area of woodland which we had shot the early performance shots at, and as we ventured further in, we realised that the previous night’s rain had made our location very damp and thus potentially more risky for the crew and equipment.
We begun with the performance regardless, capturing a lot of images of me playing the drums, as well as the drum rolling down various hills.
We also filmed a few shots at different trees where I repeatedly hit the tree, hoping that these would look similar to the arty yet random images present in Peñates other videos such as ‘Tonight’s Today’.
We also decided to film a few stop motion shots similar to what we had already filmed, where I wandered around the woodland, stopping at various trees, banging the drum. We were careful not to include any rubbish or the bridge which overlooked the woods in our footage, as this was what made us decide to re-shoot the footage in the first place.
Once the performance footage had been filmed, we realise we did in fact have enough time to shoot the door opening and closing. We quickly headed home and employed my father to unscrew the door. We then progressed back into the woods, and quickly set about filming the door in the woods.
This proved very difficult as we needed the door to open and close in stop motion, however, after a few attempts, we decided what worked best (the cameraman walking up to the door so that the person who was to open it by tilting it a small amount), and filmed this from a variety of angles.
Overall, this was a very successful shoot, as we now had the whole of the footage we needed, and thus anything else we needed to film would be decided when we had watched our footage back and decided if it was good enough for the final cut.
Friday
This weekend, Mark and I decided to film all the footage which we needed to fill in the gaps in our music video.
After two weeks of filming stop motion animation and performance based shots, later capturing and editing them, we knew what needed to be done or re-done, because the stop motion and the performance only occupied roughly half of the song, thus we had to film a lot more. On Friday, we collected the camera and tripod and both headed back to my house.
Here we decided to film all of the make up shots which we would later put in stop motion, hiring my mother to paint my face with eye liner, forming a variety of patterns, as Mark decided he wasn’t as crafty with the make up kit as he originally thought.
The shoot was successful, and we also managed to shoot a variety of filler shots, including one where mark threw leaves on my face which we wanted to put in reverse time so they appear to be flying off, as well as a time lapse, where the trees were silhouetted against the sky, capturing the transition from day to night.
Saturday
We decided to get up early so that we could capture the majority of our footage in the light, as it was coming to the time of year when it became dark very quickly. Filming early also ensured that if we had to re-do shots that we weren’t happy with, we would have enough time to do so later on in the day.
We started out by filming the ‘building' of the snake, depicting the three individual sheets which make up the snake moving independently, with shots of them each rolling up in stop motion, plaiting together, and later having the sock ‘head’ move towards the plaited sheets, giving the snake life. This shoot took very long and was very strenuous, as we had to move each sheet individually which took three times longer than when we had been moving only the snake.
We tried to achieve as many angles as possible, using high and low angles, as well as pans and tilts showing the creation take shape.
When we headed home after a long day filming we decided to stop and quickly record some filler shots in the woodland, simply of panning and tilting around.
The shoot was successful as the weather meant that we could film all day, and we were now confident in the fact that roughly the first third of our video had been filmed.
Sunday
On the final day of shooting in the weekend, we decided to try and shoot all of the performance, as well as the door, but we knew we would have to work fast as we both had our own commitments at one o’clock, thus another day of early filming begun.
We headed to the area of woodland which we had shot the early performance shots at, and as we ventured further in, we realised that the previous night’s rain had made our location very damp and thus potentially more risky for the crew and equipment.
We begun with the performance regardless, capturing a lot of images of me playing the drums, as well as the drum rolling down various hills.
We also filmed a few shots at different trees where I repeatedly hit the tree, hoping that these would look similar to the arty yet random images present in Peñates other videos such as ‘Tonight’s Today’.
We also decided to film a few stop motion shots similar to what we had already filmed, where I wandered around the woodland, stopping at various trees, banging the drum. We were careful not to include any rubbish or the bridge which overlooked the woods in our footage, as this was what made us decide to re-shoot the footage in the first place.
Once the performance footage had been filmed, we realise we did in fact have enough time to shoot the door opening and closing. We quickly headed home and employed my father to unscrew the door. We then progressed back into the woods, and quickly set about filming the door in the woods.
This proved very difficult as we needed the door to open and close in stop motion, however, after a few attempts, we decided what worked best (the cameraman walking up to the door so that the person who was to open it by tilting it a small amount), and filmed this from a variety of angles.
Overall, this was a very successful shoot, as we now had the whole of the footage we needed, and thus anything else we needed to film would be decided when we had watched our footage back and decided if it was good enough for the final cut.
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