Music Video - Third day shooting



On the third day of shooting our music video we went back to my school to film at a place called the Phoenix theater in which as the name implies has a big stage with a few rows of seats facing it. Here's a picture of it below.
We used this place as a club setting for our music video so we organised some people from our school to come as a crowd to dance and socialize as if they were in an actual club. The theatre is equipped with lots of spotlights that could move around, change colours and also change patterns. This was going to be operated by the caretaker of the theatre as he knew how to operate it better than us. We also were equipped with some dry ice that we eventually used as mist throughout filming in the theatre 
When this was all set up the crowd started to come and fill up the stage, we were hoping that our actress could come as well so we can film both her and the crowd but sadly she was going to be running late so we had to just film the crowd using all the cameras at our disposal to move around the crowd and film as much as we could of them.
Eventually Niah came but by that time everyone had left so we had an idea of getting her to give a performance in the theatre by herself, moving around freely with all the light and mist from the previous scenes. We used a range of close ups and medium close ups at many angles whilst the caretaker was controlling the lights to give a spotlight that followed her. Overall this day was successful as we were able to get some very nice shot of something that was in the storyboard and some things that were not. It would of been nicer if we had shot of Niah and the crowd together but sadly we couldn't.  

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