In today’s session all of the group went out to shoot the rest of the videos. This was a productive day because we all got the chance to be involved and help with the making of the video. Creatively we had more ideas as a group together and worked well to produce the second set of videos. Because of this, the videos didn’t take that long to film because we knew what we wanted to shoot, how it was going to be acted out and the locations.
The first video we shot was in the park. We initially see the couple walk together towards the swings. It then cuts to a front view of them sitting on the swings. This transition works well as the movement is capture in the right place from the previous shot.
It then cuts to a closeup of their hands moving in to hold hands, which is continued from the front view. The last shot shows a closeup of hands embraced.
The second video was another simple video as we just used a bench in the park for a location. We directed ‘Tom’ to act quite nervous at first because they are still in the early stages of their relationship. He then does a comical ‘yawn and hug’ move to try and look smooth and win over ‘Emily’. It is a front view looking slightly downwards onto the couple.
Again shooting these videos went really well and I think the transitions look good. These contrast to the other videos we shot because these are for the early stages of the relationship where they are in love. These videos show how happy they are together by hugging, holding hands, etc. They also show how awkward relationships can be in the beginning and how shy people are.
In the afternoon we shot the stop motion for the transitions on the scrap book. This showed us panning the camera from one polaroid picture to the next in the scrap book. We all worked together on this shoot as Sarah took the photos while me and Jas moved the book/pages. We used the opening photo of each video when we were zooming in because it blended well when the video played straight after.Although this seemed a simple shoot, we messed up the changing of the photos. As the camera would zoom in on the polaroid to then start playing the video, when we zoomed out again we would have to replace the picture so it was the finishing shot of the video. We forgot this on the last zoom and had to start shooting the whole page again.
When we came back to edit the shoot we found the videos were too long for the gaps we left in one part of the video. We did not want to waist the second happy video, so in the end Sarah added it with the two sad videos at the end of the song so that it progressively gets sadder. When we watched the transition clips we saw that they fitted in perfectly and blended in well with the actual videos.
At this point we only have one small gap to fill in our video. The line in the song where the gap is says ‘That is what it is’. This is the last part of our video to create but we are stuck on how to fill it. Next week we will decided on something and fill the gap with an appropriate scene.
