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Another Filming Location

As the room we oringally had filmed in was unavailable, I found an old building with no roof in Sutton that we got in to to film.

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Though it's not as ideal as the other location, I think it works with some genre conventions as it fits the grungy kind of scenes in music videos.

 

Idea for Filming

On Sunday I'm filming some more footage for the video, I was stuck for ideas on what else to film so it wasn't just a video of my actor walking across Nottingham. I've decided I want an extra aspect to the music video - a twist at the end showing that the actor wasn't just needlessly paranoid, and someone is actually watching him.

I was thinking of nearer the end, just after the lyrics "You're alive" and him walking out the abandoned room doors. Then it shows an over the shoulder shot in a darkened room of someone on a computer clicking and watching footage of him. I was thinking of filming in the media room as i could move the monitors and towers of the computer with the little lights flashing.

As well as adding something more to the video it might be quite beneficial as it covers one of the characteristics that Andrew Goodwin writes about when definining music videos in his book Dancing in the Distraction Factory.

"There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes etc. and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the body)."

I'm not sure yet but the person on the computer could either just be shown at the end as a twist, just a shadow of someone watching him; or it could be dispersed throughout the video then the twist at the end be that it's the main actor himself that's watching it back.

On Sunday I'll also be filming more in the abandoned room place to get some footage similar to the video for The Fall by Gary Numan. Filming my actor in different parts and editing so it looks flickery, and also to get more performance footage.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Now we finally have the audio working on Adobe Premiere Pro, I'm starting the actual editing of my footage; at the moment I'm just cutting the parts that I don't need from my footage and starting to place them in the right order and time.

 

 

 

As I didn't get as much more filmed on Thursday as I would have liked,I can see how much I've got properly and film more footage when my actor is next available if I need to.

CCTV Effects

As I have not yet shot all my footage for the complete editing, I have been creating the CCTV-like effects of my filming on Adobe After Effects with the help of this video.

Creating the flicker effect

First I opened a new composition, added the video –already cut- changed the tint and the framerate; then added noise and a timecode.

Then made a new layer black and added fractal noise and changed the width and contrast. I added it on to the composition and changed the opacity to 10% to imitate the flickering of real CCTV cameras.

Then, after looking at another video, I decided to add the animation preset "night vision",  changed the preset colour from green to a blue-y grey,and turned the opacity down put the venetetian blinds setting as "Bad TV 1: Warp" which added lines across the screen.

 



"night vision" effect

 

Filming Update

My actor has cut his hair really differently so as well as being worried about continuity, I don't think he'll have time to film on Sunday. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, so I'm just going to film lots of shots of the location when I can next and see what I can do with the footage I already have. D: 

"The Fall" by Gary Numan

The scenery for this video is really cool, though I haven't been quite that lucky in location, I was thinking if I could some similar camera angles and techniques as this when filming more on Sunday, it would be good. :)

 

But obviously mine would be mixing that kind of scenery with scenes in crowds and in the streets like I've filmed, too.
 

Update

Though I'm happy with what footage I've collected, looking at it at school, I think I'd need a lot more before going into editing. This week I will try to collect some more clips of cameras and city stuff, then again on Sunday, I'll get some more footage of my actor, more focused on using the tripod.

 

Until then I will work on my advert for the first deadline.

Pictures From Nottingham

Whilst driving to where we had planned, we saw a really old, looking kind of garage room thing (which we think might be the back entrance to a store called Whistle and Flute Menswear on Wollaton St.) that looked really perfect for filming in, so we filmed some of the vocals we had planned to do in that factory place. I haven't taken many pictures, I was obviously focusing more on filming, but I've taken a few. 

 

Filming in Nottingham from Ashleighhh-x

As well as more abstract pictures or stills from my filming, I tried to take a few of my actor that I could use in my magazine advert:

I could mess with colours on them, and change the focus maybe. :)

Filming Today

Going to Nottingham to film in a few hours; just getting everything prepared. I've not completely finished my time plan as I was struggling to visualise everything that exact. Though I've annotated a printed out sheet of the lyrics to take with me as well. I'm going to try film some lip syncing today, but hopefully the most of that can be done in that factory place next week.

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This is my only chance to film all the Nottingham bits and I'm a little worried about it, but hopefully it should be fun still.

More Actor Photos

I found some more pictures of my actor that kind of look a bit more like him.. so I thought it might be helpful to put them on here. :) 

Actor for my video

Just got my laptop working properly after a few days, but finally I have a definite actor for my music video, my friend couldn't get her drama school friends to help so I've managed to convince my sister's boyfriend to do it, it might actually work a bit better, looks-wise as he's a little older (he's 25) and it might look a little more convincing. 

Some picture from Facebook, with his permission

Once I have sorted out exactly what is happening in each part of the video I should start filming,  as he's going away soon and will have a tan, and I feel like it might be better if he was pale. So within the next two weeks, hopefully!

Location Ideas

I decided I was going to look for kind of grungy, industial streets to film in around Nottingham city centre. At the moment, I'm exploring around streets surrounding Maid Marian way, mainly, using the Street View tool on Google Maps. Though I've taken into consideration it might be a little different as some of the image dats are 2008, so they might look cleaner or a bit different now.

 

I'll use this as a kind of log to come back to and edit, a list of all the street names I've found so far that I could use. (Use the map in the corner and zoom out  to see the other points on the map that I've made.)

 

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