Review of Filming (Thursday 13th Oct)

We began filming our music video last lesson in one of our locations - the colleges basketball court. Steven and I brought all of the costume's and props we needed which were: basketball shirt, tracksuit bottoms, baggy shirts and a basketball. We then filmed our opening shot which is the basketball being scored in the hoop. We then filmed shot two of the artist rapping with the basketball in his hand with the court in the background. We also filmed a long stretch of the film with the artist walking and rapping the whole song. This is to make sure we have enough footage when we edit.
We found another location next to the basketball court on the step and we made the artist lip sync to the whole song yet again, so we can add parts of the shots to the video if needed. We felt it was a successful shoot, getting a lot of different shots in a short space of time, with very good lip syncing. We also added some shots of the artist and another character playing basketball which we feel we can add in the video to create a balance of rapping and other visual shots. The weather was fairly dull and gloomy meaning we will have to make sure if we re film some of the shots on the basketball court we do not film on a really bright day as it could damage our continuity of the video.
We feel ready to continue filming over this weekend, with the group meeting at 11am on Sunday 16th October at Parker Piece. We will be using all of the locations we have researched into in our previous blogs and will possibly find some other suitable locations along the way. We know exactly what shots we need to film as we have ticked off the ones completed in the storyboard. If the weather is bad - for example raining - we will probably still have to film as our deadline will be the coming Monday. We learnt alot from our filming on Thursday, the main thing is we will have to shoot lots of different angles with the artist rapping the whole song.