Shoot Six

Date: 28/03/2014
Actors: Jonny Brown, Sam Potter
Equipment: Video camera, Tripod
Props: Car
Shots: 1, 2, 3 + more

The sixth shoot finished the music video as it featured the introduction that comes before the music actually starts. I left this part of the video til last as it would be the hardest part to film and at the start of filming, there was still a lot which I had left to learn. This part of the filming took place on St Margret's Close in Driffield as it is an isolated area and there was not likely to be any distractions other than a few children playing nearby. The scene takes place in Sam's car where him and Jonny are discussing the situation that they are in to establish the narrative that takes place throughout the video.

I decided to alter the shots which I had initially planned on doing with the storyboard. This meant that the video started with an over the shoulder shot of Jonny walking towards Sam's car to let him know about the situation. I believe that this provides a personalised effect for the introduction of the video. I filmed this shot from a still angle using a tripod and again whilst walking with Jonny using the camera handheld. As this introduction did not have any of the music video audio over it, dialogue needed to be written. The script was as follows:

S: Did he say he'd give us more time?
J: No mate he's pissed off.
S: What are we going to do?
J: I don't know, but we need to shift this blow thick and fast.
S: No more getting high off our own supplies then.
J: Tell me about it, I have a bad feeling about this.

The audio was recorded in one shot (although it took many to get the pace and pitch right) so that upon editing there would be only one part of audio to fit in. Once inside the car, I filmed an extreme close-up of Sam's face as he reads his dialogue. This is so that it appears to be in the perspective of Jonny as he is having the conversation. I then used the framing which i intended to use for the second shot for which I sat in the back seat and did a two-shot of both of the characters talking. The framing for the first shot is then used which gives a frontal view of the conversation as they are both sat in the car. Jonny's second line is used in this part where his body language gets more aggressive when he emphatically stresses 'thick and fast'. I filmed an extra shot of Sam placing his keys in his car to turn it on at an extreme close-up and an establishing still shot of the car as it drives away. This indicates the start of the music video where I intend on editing the title in at that point and the audio to follow. The final shot that we did in this shoot showed Jonny staring out of the car window in a similar style to the self-reflective mirror shot which I filmed in a previous shoot. I filmed this from the back seat using a tripod to reduce camera motion, the character is only present in the right third side of the shot to connote the world outside being bigger than him and how he may feel that it is too much to handle.