Comments on Third Filming

For the third filming we were filming the river scenes, which included both romantic shots of their relationship. However, also shots were their relationship had broken down. For the breakdown of their relationship shots the weather was very miserable which suited the atmoshphere we were trying to create in those shots. We had alot of footage of the river scenes which came in handy when editing as it helped fill in gaps of filming we could not use. It also helped our music video have quicker shots and make our scenes and shots in some places shorter and quicker as it broke up the scenes that were too long. This helped as quick shots is what typical R&B music videos use. Which was useful as one shot was 14 seconds on Adrian singing, which was too long of a shot.
Later on we were filming the scenes at my house where the female character Yoda is cheating on Adrian with Derek. The problems that occured was setting up the whole 'mise en scene' of the cheating scene, which was meant to be occuring in Derek's bedroom in the music video narration. Therefore, as we were filming in my room which is kind of girly we had to make changes to my room in order to make it more 'boylike.' Consequently, I took props and some of my brothers things from his room in order to make it a better mise en scene. We added my brothers aftershave on the side cabinet along with some weights. We also hung up a calender for men where a women was in lingerie on the wall over the bed.
Also my room is very narrow and filming midshots and longshots proved very difficult to do while using a tripod. We overcome this issue by standing right back and moving the cabinet and wardrobe right backwards, in order to give some extra space to successfully get the camera shots we wanted for our music video.
We also had issues with costume, however, we found some black shorts that she wore in the end. My dog also kept running in and out of the room interupting the filming. So I overcame this problem by putting him in my sisters room while we were filming.
What worked well in my room was the lighting as I have a lightswitch which you can dim or make brighter. Therefore by diming the lights slightly it emphasises and shows the cheating as bad as the lighting was not bright and showing happy times.