Following Production Processes P3 (d)

To follow production processes we had plans of different ways of filming with a variety of camera angles and settings.
Here is a diary of filming to show how we achieved the creative vision we were trying to achieve. We were able to film all the scenes of Chloé on Saturday the 29th September 2014. We filmed Sam on the 14th February 2015.

14th February 2015: Here we were trying to create a fairly plain picture so that the focus was on Sam who was miming the song. We directed Sam to face the camera and just move to the music to make it look realistic.

Saturday 29th September 2014: Here we started filming by the window and moved the camera slowly to the right, and as we passed Chloé she would put her jumper on. This made it more exciting then if we had just filmed her straight ahead.

Saturday 29th September 2014: Here as we film Chloé about to put her makeup on, she is out of focus. We did this by putting the shutter speed on a low setting to give it a longer exposure, allowing more light in and making the motion blurred.

Saturday 29th September 2014: Here we did the opposite as we began to make Chloé come back into focus. So we increased shutter speed giving it a shorter exposure, allowing less light in so that the motion stopped making it in focus.  We made the background blurred so that the focus was on Chloé. We did this by setting the aperture fairly low to give it a shallow depth of field, allowing more light in so that the background was blurred.

Saturday 29th September 2014: Here we experimented with different angles so that there was a variety to make the video more exciting. By doing this we were shortening clips that were too long by adding short clips of different angles. This would also help the viewer to understand what is going on ,by showing a variety of the settings and location.

Here, again we wanted to have Chloé in focus, until the bully walks in, and we would then make Chloé become out of focus while the bully was in focus, so that the viewers attention was on the bully. To do this we, we made the aperture slightly low to give it a shallow depth of field, allowing more light in so that the background was slightly blurred.

Saturday 29th September 2014: Here we wanted to get Chloé and the bully in the same frame, to show the viewers the body language of the two actresses. As you can see, we made Chloé look short in front of the bully to show that the bully was the superior person. We also asked Chloé to look upset, while the bully was smiling to help show the viewers what was happening in this situation.

Saturday 29th September 2014: This was the same scene as the picture above, but we used a different angle for more variation and made the scene more exciting. This also helped to show the facial expressions of the bully, so that the viewers could understand the situation. This over the shoulder shot represents continuity.

14th February 2015: Here we used another different angle of Sam singing, to add variation and make the video more exciting.











For these scenes we used the Canon 7D DSLR and the human eye lens 50mm.