Reshooting

This weekend we took out a camera, red head light with blue filter, tripod and dolly and refilmed our post it notes scenes and a couple shots when our main character is sitting by the door and we have the red head light with the blue filter outside. 

During editing last week we had a few problems with our music video that we wanted to change. After showing the first shots of the music video we had “fully” edited to other media students and our teacher we received feedback saying that the post it notes shots were “tacky” and that the information on them was “humorous”. This was not the intention of the post it notes. We wanted to create the feel that the boy was obsessed with this girl and how eager he was for the date. As well as this we were also told that because the post it notes were brightly coloured it made the music video narrative seem happier than it actually was as we wanted to set a dark atmosphere to the music video. So for reshooting we have decided to use plain white paper and put more creepy facts about the girl. For example her address, brothers and sisters.

Furthermore we found that we did not have enough footage, which is mainly because on day of filming we stuck to filming by our storyboard instead of testing with different shots. Regardless of us experimenting with different angles on the day of filming, we still have gaps in our music video and narrative. Us not calculating how long we wanted each shot to last in our music video also created this problem, we therefore need to film some more footage. After filming and looking through footage we definitely overestimated how much footage we had, because after cutting it down in editing and fitting it to the song, we have realised that we do not have enough footage.

We have also decided to reshoot the shots of our main character sitting and waiting by the door. We want to reshoot this because in the frame the viewer can see the wires that connected to the red headlight that we were using outside for that shot. This is not a vital reshoot however we want the frame to be clear and just have the figure of our main character with the red head light (blue filter on top) shining on him, and the wires were a distraction to this shot.

Last thing we want to reshoot is adding more close-ups of our main character to fill in the gaps that we have as well as playing around a bit more with the idea of him having a picture of this girl. We had the idea that the main character would take the picture, storm out from his house and go to a river nearby and throw the picture in the lake. This would add to the sympathy we want our audiences to feel towards him as well as being significant in showing how fragile this boy is and how quickly his mood changes.

Editing has been really good. We've been cutting the shots down to the beat of the song so that now our narrative fits in with the climatic structure of the song. We've done a few shots reverse speed which fit in really well and look really good. We've also sped up a few shots and played around with transitions such as dip to black, dissolve and textualised. This is just to link the shots but without making it look too boring and then not going over the top with transitions to make it look too amateur.