Filming - Take 1:

On Monday 22nd November, we came together as a group outside of school in order to begin our filming process. We begun filming at Millie's house as this was appropriate for a few scenes in our video. For our video we are having three main characters but for our first shooting we decided to just use one character as we could get all the scenes done that they are in alone.

We knew that a lot of the film wouldn't be useable as it was our first time of filming so we saw this day as more of a practice and getting used to the camera. After putting the filming that we did onto the computer and into the programme 'Final Cut' we could see what mistakes we made so that we could correct this in our next filming session and also what we could edit and use in our final video. We have learnt that in some instances the camera appeared to be at a slight angle where it was not properly positioned before recording. Although we tried to avoid reflections when we was filming with windows and mirrors in the shot, there were a few occassions where we was not able to avoid this or did not realise that whoever was behind the camera were in the reflection. We cannot use these shots as we need to perfect it in order to achieve the shot that is good enough to go into our final music video.

Our next filming session will take place on the 5th December with all of our characters participating.

Location Shots:

These photos are of where will be mainly filming. Below is Millie's house, Bartellas Restaurant in Meopham and Meopham train station.

Risk Assessment:

Storyboard:

Once we had a plan of our music video, we needed to produce a storyboard as a moving images video with our song in the background so that we could see if it worked. Jake drew all the images for our storyboard which we then scanned onto the computer and made it into a video using the software Final Cut.

Here is our storyboard:

Mood Board:

We have put together a mood board to show different things going on in our video and how the song reflects our thoughts about the lyrics and what they mean.

Copyright:

Before we use our chosen song we had to ask for permission from the producers of the song. We researched that the producers of 'Halfway Gone' was actually the band themselves. Millie emailed to their official address on behalf of the rest of the group. We have not yet heard back from them which means we can continue to use the song we have chosen.

Final Idea:

Once we had our initial ideas as to what we thought we wanted to do with our music video, we listened carefully to the lyrics again and tried to put our idea together with the song. Our first interpretation of the meaning behind the lyrics and what we planned our video to be like, did not go well with the actual song. We decided that it was best to start again and really analyse the song. We printed the lyrics off and sat together as a group to pitch in ideas and write down any ideas that came to us. Once we had begun planning again, our ideas kept developing until we had a decent storyline to create a music video with.

Here are our ideas for our video:

To conclude our ideas, we decided that the best way to create this would be to base it around a couples relationship and how the man is not sure whether to leave, so he is 'halfway gone'.