Filming!!

On Tuesday During the media lesson Me Gabby and Millie set up the green screen to film us lip-syncing the whole of the song. From previous experience we knew that we needed as many shots as possible to fill in gaps, as in our last test production we didn’t have enough this was back up for our production if we ran out of shots. We decide that a black and white colour scheme would keep it plain and simple.

After the lesson on this day we all went back to Millie’s house and filmed the shots for the background story in our production. Shots 1-7 were the shots we filmed and these were of, Millie and Maya. Things that made it the hard to film these shots were that shots number 1 and 2 were that Maya and Millie positioned in front of a dressing table mirror, so we had to align the camera in a perfect position so that you couldn’t see the camera in the mirror, also we wanted a smooth transition between Millie and Maya so we could ensure that they were both in the exact same position. Maya is also 9 years old so we had to keep her entertained, but she kept loosing her patience and we had to do a couple of reshoots.

This is a shot Millie in front of the dressing table:

Other shots we found really hard to do were shots 3 and 4 of Mayer’s and Millie’s eyes:

This shot was really hard as I was filming at this point, and to get the camera to focus you had to zoom very slowly otherwise it would be out of focus, we had to zoom into Millie’s eye and out from Mayer’s eye it was a very complicated process. It was also hard to select a transition between there eyes but we decided to use cross dissolve as it made it as smooth as possible but when you start to see Maya's eye you can still see a bit of Millie’s eye.

These were the eye shots on our story board