Before we had decided to meet up again for the filming session on the 15th October we needed to make sure that we would not get kicked out of the school like before. Therefore to solve this problem we have spoken to Mr Zadi and asked him to create a letter for the site officers to open apartments that we need to film in and to be enabled to film within the school on a saturday without any problems getting in the way of the production process.
Once we had met up and began discussing our thoughts of what we could to for our next shots, Modey and I came up with a clever idea of creating a very unique shot that wasn’t been thought about yet to anyone in our media class. Therefore we wanted to show our originality and used a cloning technique. This shot includes having two or more of the same person all in one shot in one place, but each clone will interact with each other differently. To create this very unique shot we set up the camera and tripod in the correct place and cleaned the room up so it was empty with nothing else in the shot but the actor, also being in a clean and tidy location it would mean preventing the camera from moving. We then filmed Dom at one side of the room singing to one half of the song, then filmed again with Dom located on the other side of the room singing the second half of the song. But both lenghts of the shots would be playing at the same time and ending at the same time in harmony. This was a new way of combining a cloning technique in our post production to combine and merge two shots into one. Which appears that the same person is singing along with the song but is completely doing different actions, like they are different people singing a duet together.
Shot was added after filming and editing
One other shot that we thought we be a good idea to experiment with is where Dom is trapped and cannot escape from this empty dull room, therefore we wanted to show his struggle and frustration by telling him to hit the door and get really angry. This was shown by the high angle shot which makes him look vulnerable. We used boxes in the stock room to climb up to achieve the high angle show so we can film him coming into the room from a different angle. Modey suggested that we should place the camera really firmly against the wall so we can show that Dom is really trapped and that he needs to do that actions of confusion by his body language and facial expressions. The camera angle was chosen to remain the same during this scene as it gave us a wide shot of how small this room was when he is trapped, symbolizing a prison cell in some form.
When it came to the end of the music video we wanted to create a shot that would show fatigue and that Dom is getting to the point of giving up trying to escape. We directed Dom and told him that it would be a good idea to sit down in a way which shows that he is getting extremely depressed and upset, using vulnerable body language and shots to represent the mood of the actor. We asked him to tilt his head down and pretend to be upset to finalise the idea of him being trapped in this confusion.
Rachel Louise Taylor 