Prepping For Filming Equipment

When we have been planning for filming we have tried to make sure that we turn up to the set location on the day of filming and ensure that we came fully prepared, the way in which we did this was by planning what equipment we were going to use.

The camera which we used was a Panasonic HDC-SD10 High Definition camera which I brought for the purpose of producing the music within Media Studies at A-Level. This camera works on a hardrive which is much easier when importing the footage to Imovie on the macs compared to trying to work off tape on the other cameras. When playing about with it we have found it very user friendly as well when working with it.

For the filming the tripod which we decided to use was a HAMA one, this is one which we have borrowed from school. We tested it at school by just doing a bit of filming, we found that it was the best one which we had access to use, we also found it easy to move when doing the filming.

Overall with the filming equipment we were happy with how easy it was to work and how user friendly it was.

Prepping for Film Analysed Storyboards and Animatic/Shoot Schedule

These are scanned images which we have scanned of are final story boards. We have analysed the shots and said what is shown and what we are trying to achieve within them.

The reason why we analysed the story board is to make it easier for us as a group when trying to do the actual filming.

This is the final Animatic which we have made as group, the reason why we made this is to help out with the filming process, so we can see the shots which we need to include throughout the filming.

We have done the animatic and storyboards as a ruff guide to help us filming.

THESE WILL BOTH COME TOGETHER AND ACT AS OUR SHOOTING SCHEDULE

Prepping For Filming Weather and Actors

As we are planning to go down there and want to make sure that we dont waste a day we have looked into the weather from a different number of resources.

Here are the two results when we checked the weather, one is from the BBC weather website and another is from Iphone weather application. By looking at this Thursday 6th Janurary will be a good day to go down even though it will be cold, by looking at this it will be clear of wind and snow which is a huge positive. The most likely outcome is that it will be a cloudy day, this will not effect us as a group a drastic amount due to the song being rather slow beat and depressing, so if anything this may help us in some aspects.

Actors

The actor which we have chosen for our music video is Thomas Blakey, which is myself. The reason why we decided this as a group because it was the easiest option for a number of reasons. With myself being within the group it make it easy to arrange filming because we can talk more about what is going to happen. Also when asking other people exams played a big part in them saying no to us and wanting to fit revision in. Another reason why we picked me as well is because we believed as a group that I fit the role well for the genre which we are doing for are music video.

However even though I am doing the acting I can still help out with filming when it is scenery shots throughout the video, also editing is my strong point so I can contribute a lot when we get onto this stage within the production of our final product.