Music Video- First day shooting


 

On our first day of shooting the music video we shot at my school. We booked this room called the black box which is painted all black making the room completely black when all the doors are closed.

My group arrived an hour earlier than our actress to give time to set up all the cameras and it was well needed. We had a small problem with the camera as it wasn't auto focusing properly as it should. luckily the shot we needed today didn't involve a lot of movement so we manually focus it as well as the few times the focusing was working.

Also there was small problem with lighting, the black box has stage lights situated all over the ceiling and since it was our first time operating the lighting and we couldn't figure it out. We had to call in maintenance to show us. He showed where all the switches were for the lights as well as the dashboard which gave us the opportunity to change the brightness of each light as well as changing how warm the shade of each light was set.

Finally our actress arrived and we started to film, that day we just wanted close ups of her as this was mainly a chance for her to get used to the song as well as get used to me and the crew. We did some standard close ups with the lights in different angles but we also found an idea for a shot. We used the projector in the room to project a power point of different colours one the wall and got her to stand in front of the projector so these colours run off of her as well as in the background. This was a successful first day, doing mostly everything we needed and are ready for the next day of shooting in King Cross.

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