look at all this wonderful stuff….

Today we all went out to shoot the rest of the videos and used our studio setup to film the transition videos. This was a very productive day because almost all of us were involved for the whole day.

The videos didn’t take that long to film because we had chosen simple movements and locations.

The first video we shot was in the park. At first it is a shot where we are watching the couple walk away from us toward the swings. It then cuts to a front view of them sitting down. I like the transition between the side view and the front view because it fits together well where Elliot’s (Tom’s) movement matches up almost perfectly between each shot.

We then cut to a closeup of their hands moving in together which is continued from the front view. The last shot seen is a closeup of them holding hands.

The second video was also very simple. The location was a bench. Elliot was meant to seem quite nervous at first then do the comical ‘yawn and hug’ move that is well known and is used in many comedies. The view is from the front slightly looking downwards onto the couple.

I then did a close up shot of mainly their faces and shoulders once Elliot has his arm around her. She then leans her head on his shoulder.

These videos are in contrast to the ones we filmed the other day that go at the beginning of our music video. These videos show the relationship at its early stages and shows how happy they are together ‘hugging, holding hands’ etc. I think that these videos work well with the scrap book that we created because the idea of ‘dates’ correspond with these videos as they can be classed as ‘dates’.

In the afternoon we filmed the transition from Polaroid photograph to the next Polaroid picture in the scrap book. I was taking the photographs and Holly and Jas was moving the books, photographs and pages. This was quite tedious because we had to zoom in and out of each picture and we had forgotten at one point that we had to change the photograph and had to re-shoot the scene at the end. We used the opening shot of each picture when we were zooming in because then it blended well when the video played straight after. When zooming out we changed the photograph so that it was the end shot of the video for the same reason. We did this for all of the videos except the last one because it cuts straight into the chorus where the characters are saying the lyrics with speech bubbles.

At one point we had to turn the page so that we could get to the next lot of videos. This is because when editing in our videos with the song and the shots we had already, we realised that there was only enough room for one happy video at the beginning. We did not want to waist the second happy video that we had created, so in the end I added it with the two sad videos at the end of the song so that it progressively gets sadder. This is why we had to turn the page; it made it more obvious that something had changed and a problem occurred, and also we suck them in wrong which in the end worked out quite well.

When I added in the transition clips to the video they fitted in perfectly and barely needed changing at all. They blended in well with the actual videos and created a quite powerful effect. This effect was almost like a flashback of event that had happened and therefore showed that he was lonely now. There is only one line in the song that we have not filled. ‘That is what it is’. We have been trying to think about what to put in this gap so will leave it till next time.