Our shoot was begun by an early start at 8.30 we had sorted out our set, our costumes our cast and the shoot day schedule.
We began by getting our first morning shoot ready,
our cast came in on time and we were ready to star.
The day seemed to be becoming more exiting by the minute; we all had our shifts of working the play back, directing the cast and the camera and checking the light balances between each scene. The morning was taken up of our performance and the dance sections; we had already decided that in post we were to do a lot in silhouette so to make a crisp like we decided to film a lot of the dance more on green screen. This enabled us to have the freedom to have some fun and experimentation in our post production editing stage.
The picture to the left is to show our star Georgina sat on the steps. we had the pillars and black steps with a light under each pillar to create a more show business style.
The back drop is a sheep of white with a red light behind it. this was like a curtain. that we could pull back and fourth when we needed it and when we were using the green screen.
The set was used for the main beginning and we plan in post to keep coming back to the more narrative section of our video when the music becomes old fashioned again. The narrative would subtly reflect that she lives well off. She has dancers and pillars and a big red curtain. This shows that the song could have her coming off as spoiled or very demanding due to the words "get outa here and get me some money too" when she has lots already
To the left this picture is the set from a wide camera shot with our dancers this is with the house lights on. this is to simply show the characters in positions that myself and my group put them in as experimentation's for the album cover and poster as well as the shoot day diary shots to help show our set from a behind the camera point of view
This is the beginning shot of Georgina that we used for the poster. We edited it the colour and created a more sophisticated look with a dark grey background colour.
here she is wearing her full attire that she wore throughout the day which was wholly 1920's style. the dress, the pearls the feather and the eye make up and lipstick. we experimented this image into older looking effects and black and white which we used in the poster however this image is my personally favourite because of the coloring and contrasts.
The day went through with a steady and on time pace and we had finished the dancing we decided to include our Zoetrobe shots now. This consisted of us coming up with a repetitive action for our cast to do. This was already pre-determined these moves, we decided to do a passing of the hat and a cane etc. This was a nice experiment for our group and it made me even more exited about the editing phase of our production task.
The second half part of the day was when we built our second set. this was a big stair case and pillars for the beginning and end stage of the song this was a long process because we wanted to include lots of tracking shots, the beginning one when we track in when Georgina walks in and then the tracking shot following her as she walks in following the camera. This shot took a lot of takes simpley because the tracks were complex and required a huge amount of concentration and a number of times we had a small kink in the tracks.
All in all the day finished on schedule and it was very enjoyable and self full filling. we now need to look forward to the post production in the editing phase and after effects on the green screen shots.
