Today Sarah and I filmed half of our ‘to do’ videos to fill in the gaps of our video. We filmed the last set of videos, showing the deterioration of the relationship and breaking up of the couple. Our shooting location was a friends doorstep who gave us permission to shoot. We chose this location because it shows ‘Emily’ meeting ‘Tom’ as she leaves her house. We filmed her taking the key out of the door to make it look more realistic that she is actually leaving the house.
The next view is an over the shoulder shot looking down ‘Emily’s’ path as she is watching ‘Tom’ arrive at her house. Tom pulls out a bunch of flowers from behind his back to give to ‘Emily’. He is extremely happy to see her and has a huge smile on his face. We directed him to do this to make the contrast of the two peoples emotion apparent.
The next view is of ‘Emily’s’ reaction to receiving the flowers. We directed her to have a blank expression so the viewer would be confused about how she will react. She does not seem to happy to receive these flowers and we see her drop them on the floor. The camera angle then switches to a side view of the flowers falling and hitting the ground.
We used flowers in the video because they visually symbolise the break up of this relationship. This is effective because it is obvious to the audience that she is not happy to see him. From this point the tone of the video has changed because now we know that the relationship between the characters has changed and the song is about relationships not working out. This is also shown by the desktop characters, as their faces change to sadness.
Today worked really well and I feel our videos went to plan and showed the emotions we wanted. We filmed all these scenes on an ipod, but I think the quality is really good. This was also handy because we were accessible to a range of ipods and there small and light so we could take them anywhere with ease.
On Thursday we will shoot the rest of the videos which will be the love scenes. We will also shoot the transition videos where we move from one picture to another in the sketch book.
