Second scene shoot

The shoot for the second scene went well and we got the shots that we wanted. We ran over time a bit and because we only had 2 hours it was quite a limited time that we had. This meant some of the shots weren't as up to scratch as they should have been. When we put the footage on the macs and onto final cut pro with the rest of the footage that we had edited, we thought it fitted alright with the rest of the powder paint scenes but we will defiantly have to colour grade it to make it fit with it more. The one thing we couldn't shoot was the smashing plates because we couldn't smash them at this studio that we had booked out. We have decided to shoot this scene in a dark room on a plain black floor. We will put powder paint on the plates so when they smash the powder paint flies up with it and when we put it in slow motion it should create a good effect.

Second scene location

We were not able to use the drama studio to shoot our second scene as it turned out not to be free at the time we wanted to use it. This gave us the idea to use a proper studio that we would have to pay for but would have better lighting to use and better facilities. We have decided to shoot the scene as if they are on set for a film so that you can actually see the big lights and all the equipment in the shot. This is what we sort of hope for it to look like...

Storyboard for second scene

Second scene costume, lighting and colour research

We have decided that the actors will be wearing the normal, everyday, casual look of jeans or chinos with a top. This will mean that it won't take away any notice from what they are doing rather than everyone focusing on their clothes. We also just wanted it to be a normal fight between a normal couple.

The lighting and colour is very important in this scene because we have to get it to match the colour of the last scene we have done so that it doesn't look strange when it comes to putting it all together in Final Cut Pro. This means we will have to play around with the lighting quite a bit in the studio to make it the same brightness. If we get this wrong in production then we will have to try and sort it out in post production by changing the colour and brightness etc.

Second scene planning

We have decided to shoot the second part of our music video on the 2nd December as this will give us time to plan further on what exactly we are wanting to capture. We have decided to buy china plates that have a coloured rim around the edge so it's not plain and simple. We have also decided to shoot the video in the drama studio so that we can have a simple set up of a table and a couple of chairs and maybe a sofa so that it is either a kitchen or a living room. We wanted to make it as simple as possible so that it didn't just look like one of our houses that we had gone too. We felt like we have to set it up properly but make it simple to give it that effect so that we focus on the actors more. 

Within the fight that the couple will have in the living room there will be links to the powder paint, for example, whatever the couple touches they will leave a hand print but they will not realise it, only the audience will. So, if the girl slaps the boy he will have a hand print left on his face but they will act like they don't notice it. We also thought that when they are smashing plates etc then we could put powder paint on the plate and when it smashes down the powder paint will come off with the plate smashing. In slow motion this should give a good effect. 

Shoot for lip syncing

Yesterday we shot the first part of our lip syncing for our music video. We put powder paint on our lips and also splattered it over our faces to make it look more effective and more like the powder paint fight section of the music video. We shot the sequence with the 75mm lens so that it was close up to the lips and so you couldn't see any other features of their face apart from their nose. We also tested out different shots when they weren't singing so that we could fit them in somewhere in the music video and we also shot a lip syncing part with half of one of the girls faces because the powder paint went up one side of her face. These shots looked really effective because we used bright light and it showed the powder paint really well.

Editing research - She Wolf - David Guetta

Number of cuts in the video - 100
Mostly shrinking time throughout the video but expanding time when there is extreme slow motion. Not as fast paced as normal dance music videos however it is made fast paced by the juddery movement that is created. It is not the typical music video that you see for a dance video. The cuts do fit with the music very well and they cut on the beat.