Here is an insight into the filming days for my music videos

1. Production Days
A2 Media Project

2. Day 1

3. The first day of filming for my final music
video took place at the same location as I
initially chose, a public footpath on the
outskirts of Hethersett.
This filming day took approximately 2-3
hours of filming and by the end of it roughly
two thirds of the filming was complete.

4. There were two individual issues with shots on the
day which I encountered. The first one being with
the tracking shot used to introduce the artist lip
synching to the song.
However due to the limitations of equipment with
me the final footage was shaky and looked
unprofessional.

5. The other issue was finding a prop to symbolize ‘sweet’ in
the lyrics. Initially I intended to use a flower. However
since the filming day was in Autumn I flowers were in short
supply.
Instead I used a prop in the form of my dog. Taking several
shots I tried having the dog run up to the singer, but
instead have the singer walk up to the dog and cut to the
dog being fussed.

6. Several of the shots taken during filming needed
to be edited or modified in order to get the
finished shot. For example one shot depicting a
dirty puddle was not ideal as the puddle was not
centred enough in the composition. In editing it
would need to be zoomed in and moved so that the
puddle is the centre of attention and a symbol of
risk or danger.

7. One additional shot I filmed was a Big Long Shot (BLS)
showing the singer as she is walking from one end of the
pathway to the other.
Instead of having one shot that’s duration would completely
upset the flow of the song I would later cut it into three
short Jump Shots cutting to the singer getting closer and
closer.

8. As the day progressed the actress became a
lot more confident with the song and by the
last couple of scenes she her lip syncing was
much more professional.

9. Day 2

10. On the second day of filming, after acquiring a prop, we
filmed the scenes involving the singer playing the
guitar.
The first shot filmed was an important introduction
towards the final verse of the song, where the guitar is
composed on the ground as a POV shot from the
singer’s perspective.

11. Other shots filmed on this day included a
Close-up shot of the singer playing the guitar.
This complimented the final verse of the song
as the guitar is a prominent piece of music in it.

12. Day 3

13. After some reconsideration, I decided to alter the
narrative of the music video, showing an artist drawing
and creating the story which I had filmed prior. This
meant creating a new opening scene which depicts the
artist turning the light on an beginning to draw. The
Medium shot used establishes the scene and its
duration makes it mysterious and engaging.

14. Another main part of this new setting included
creating time-lapse footage. Starting with
filming in time as I drew pictures and lyrics and
later editing the footage, speeding it up to as
much as 2000x to make the writing in time with
the lyrics.

15. Day 4

16. After receiving constructive feedback with the lip-
synching in my music video I decided to re-film some of
the sung parts starting from the first chorus onwards.
Despite the fact this had to be filmed whilst snow was
still being thawed out, the actress remains as the
centre of attention with much clearer lip-synching.