Shoot (Narrative)

We had a shoot yesterday where we filmed the narrative shots that are going to be in our video. We had planned to do quite a few shots, but a lot of these didn't work out on the day. This is because the actors found it quite difficult to do and we had to film when it was dark so we had some lighting issues even though we were inside. However after capturing the footage, I think we still have enough footage that we can use in the video.

We also made a decision to put the narrative shots in black and whites too (these were going to be in colour but it didnt look right), as well as adding the effect of a slight camera blurr and slow motion to distinguish it from the rest of the video. Another idea suggested was to put a white circle around the edges of the shots to achieve that dreamlike effect. We thought this was a good idea and represents the fact that it is Daniel who is thinking back to these moments.

Today we have also managed to come up with an artist name which we were really struggling with. But after playing around with the idea 'Tainted Dream's', we have come up with 'TainteD' where the 'T' and 'D' represent the artist names, which are 'Tyler' an 'Daniel.'

Shoot

We had our final performance shoot/re-shoot this weekend, where we filmed Daniel on Saturday and Bernard on Sunday. The shoots went well and we had both actors moving a lot more in order for them to look more enthusiastic and this came across really well on camera. We also experimented more with the camera by doing more handheld shots and taking the camera into our hands to add more movement, as we noticed that the shots on our last shoot were slightly too static. This all meant that we had an overall more interesting set of shots to use.

Now we plan to edit all of our performance shots and put them into the video, as well as plan for the narrative shoot which will be next week, and try and finalise our album cover and MySpace at the same time.

The Shoot

We had our main shoot yesterday which went pretty well, but after capturing the footage today, we have noticed that we may need to re-shoot quite a bit due to problems such as bad framing, things in shot that we don’t want to be there, not much movement etc. We also need more close-ups of both guys.

Our shoot however did go very smoothly. Both actors turned up on time and were well prepared with their lip synching. We had planned the day focussing mainly on the main artist who was with us for 10 hours (8am-6pm) which was pretty tiring for him. Our next actor arrived at 4 and was with us for two hours. We had only planned to do the shots of the two of them together in this time, however when we were left with spare time at the end, we decided to do some unplanned shots of our second artist in an outside location. Therefore the shoot was successful; however we need to look back over the footage in detail to decide what shots we need to shoot again and what extra shots we can get.

Here are some photos from the shoot: