On the 21st of July on the last day of school, myself and my group have decided to meet up to begin the first scene when the random scattered letters are developing into words. Modey and I met up in school at 8.30am to finish of the editing of the target audience interview 2. Whilst modey was finishing of the editing for the interviews and rendering it, I was printing out ‘KiD CuDi’ Letters in different text sizes and cutting them out individually. Overall we ended up with 50 letters of the Kid Cudi and Trapped in my mind all in different sizes from 700 to 300pt. Sam arrived at 10.45 to help us begin with the filming as we needed him if we were going to use more than one camera, plus to test the experiments we would need more than 2 pair of hands.
This is an image that I’ve take from the boys setting up out room into a working environment for our filming to begin. We managed to set up a fan in the corner of the room out of the way where we are going to be based. We thought we would need the fan as our original plan was to cut our different size letters that can be blown slowly by the fan with the letters landing into a set of words, which will introduce the artist and title of the song.
However our plan didn’t exactly work, as the letters blew extremely fast all over the place only giving us one split second to catch the flying letters in shot. Before my camera was able to take a picture the letters had already it the bottom of the floor therefore this idea failed to meet our expectations and we needed to find a different solution but keeping the same concept.
Instead of having the letters flying all over the room creating the sentences, we came up with the idea to stick each letter on individuality one by one on the wall in a random order, then gradually building up a sentence that is hidden on the wall. We have used a camera on a tripod, and a film on a tripod which gave us two different angles that gave us the ability to find the best angle for the shot we needed. Therefore Modey and I were behind the tripods and cameras taking shots of each letter that is applied to the wall. Whilst Sam was arranging the letters on the wall and moving out of the way before the shots were taken. This was a very quick and effective way of create some stop motion effects for our little introduction of our music video.
Difficulties & Constraints We had some difficulties during this process as my camera ran out of battery which I didn’t think would be a massive problem as I had my charger with me, plus a spare camera with a full battery in place. I changed the camera whilst attempting to keep the tripod in the exact same place. When I has successful managed to change the camera to the fully charged on, the angle has slightly moved making it extremely hard to get back into its original form. Modey had tried to help get it back to the same angle which was near to impossible! Another problem occurred when I realised that my spare camera had a different flash option of the lighting of some still shots where slightly darker than it was, on my original camera. I didn’t think this would be too much of a problem as we can Photoshop it to change the brightness and contrast. Luckily we still had the shots that Modey was taken on his camera which was more fluent with the lettering however the camera quality was extremely poor and the angle at the beginning was unclear. This left us with a decision to work out how to solve this problem. The options we had was to Photoshop the images on Modey’s camera to make them more clear and stick with the dodge angle at the beginning, merge our shots together and see what happens, or use the shots that I’ve taken with a more professional camera and see if the change of angle can be solved in the editing stages.
Overall, I think day one has been very successful and productive as we have developed new skills. Even thought we had made some mistakes during this filming process we managed to overcome these problems as a team! We have successfully filmed the first shot of our story board in just a few hours, and now know exactly what to do if we were going to re-take these shots to improve them.
Rachel Louise Taylor 