We all met up in the
studio to film our prelim music video. First we were all taught a couple of
fact about the cameras we were going to use, it was more of a refreshment for
our memories since the last time we properly filmed was our thriller. We were
refreshed about the white balance, exposure, focus etc. Then we all split into
groups of around 5, my group was Anne-sophie, Lavinia, Genevieve, Genevieve and
Myself. Our given song was Jessie J Feat. B.O.B – Price Tag, which we before
hand had learnt the lyrics to.
They had three
different set ups that we could use. The first set we used was to create a
tracking shot. That is where you have a camera and a chair attached to it,
where it is attached to a kind of rubber rope and you can slide it forth and
back and shape it however you want. We all had to try being the different roles
of directing, acting and operating the camera. So for this first shot
Anne-sophie and I were acting/singing together we filmed as so: First I was
filmed walking from the one side where they tracked me then I hit the other
side of the wall and they tracked Anne-sophie walking the other way, then half
way back again where she met me again. Later on I tried being behind the scene
of the tracking and found it rather difficult to control the camera in tact
with everything else, but I learnt that if you use marks and have an agreement
of how fast the people in the shot will be moving it makes it easier to know
how to film in tact with them.
The next set we did
was a still camera up lined up in front of the wall. In this shot we found it
easier to get close ups as the actors had space they could move in and because
we have worked with camera standing still before. Our next set up was quite
similar, but the background was a green screen, which would be helpful if we
had to use a different backdrop. The problem here was that the one actor in the
shot was much taller than the other actor, so we solved the problem by putting
the tripod up as high as we could ant tilted the camera slightly to the right. Following
we did a couple more takes and it was a rap.
We then went to the
editing room and put all our footage from the different groups on to the
computer. We used final cut pro to edit.
We then sorted the files into three different groups: track, green
screen and wall. We then were taught how to make the videos synch with the
actual track from Jessie J. In the beginning of every take we took before we
started the playback there would come three beats. We then took 8 clips that we
all dragged on top of each other where the first beat started. Then we put down
the Jessie J track for the audio and locked it so that it wouldn’t be taken out
of time and so that we could delete the audio from the other video clips so we
could get a clean sound. Now that all of the videos and the music were in tact
we could edit in between all the different clips as they were in top of each
other we could easily use the “B” key for blade to cut in the clip and then “A”
key for arrow so we could delete the excess and pull back the rest of the clip.
This was done throughout for the chorus of the song, which we were doing; we
cut in between the different sentences between the different sequences and I’m
very pleased with the end result.
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