Filming

Again in this lesson we decided that whilst two of us filmed, the other two would edit. This time we decided to change locations and wanted to go out of school. Because we couldn'y go too far as we had to be back within an hour, we went to the alley down the road from the school. Here we filmed Lewis mime the song all the way through; twice from the front of him and once from the side. We thought it would be better if we filmed him from two angles and when we edited it, we could put both angles together to make it more effective.

Filming

From watching our footage, as a group we decided we needed to film more where the person in the video is miming the song. To get more out of the lesson, we decided that two of us would stay in the classroom and edit what we had, whilst the other two went out and filmed. Megan and Lee stayed in the classroom and edited and myself and lauren took a camera outside to film Lewis.
We walked around the school trying to find a good place to film without much of a background to fit in with the 'grime' location. The place we found was around the corner behind the sports hall, here we set up the camera, in this shot you could only see a fence and trees behind Lewis, this is what we wanted. As Lewis didnt really know all teh words of the song yet, he only did the bits he did know. After we had filmed, we looked over it. We decided that doing this did work we just needed to get him to say exactly the same words at the right speed for our video.

Filming Locations

These are images of a loaction i filmed lewis in. It was down an alley, i think this was a good location to fit in with our genre as there was graffiti on the wall next to him, this links in with the hip hop culture.

Changing Our Storyboards

When it came to filming what we had in our storyboards, as a group we decided that what we had done was to hard and wasnt going to work. This meant that we had to change our idea completely and create new storyboards to fit this idea. We started off by sitting down as a group and planning other ways in which we could go about creating our video. By using different effects on the video could make our video more exciting to watch. For example, spilt screening is a good example of this as we could show both artists at the same time.

Changing Our Story Boards

In our lesson we sat down with miss and we spoke about what was actually happening in our storyboards. We noticed that they were more like a film, this means that we have to change them again. We are going to add more close ups instead of long and mid shots like it is now.

Filming

The second time we went filming it was just Lee, Charlotte and myself. We decided to film the couple bits here because there isnt many times Charlotte is on frees with us. I filmed the parts of him and his girlfriend as they walked along together, these were also going to be flashbacks.

Filming

The first time we went filming we all went together, we filmed lee crossing the road for the part of the video that was going to be a flashback. This was hard because there was quite alot of cars that were getting in the way, however we did manage to get some done.

Who was in our video

Finding people to be in our video was really hard, we now have to change our idea because they dont want to do it anymore. This is means we have to change our storyboards again.

Just before planning what would happen in our video, we sat down as a group and watched the official video of Hold On, we found out that the real video didnt really tell the story and it was performance and just of the artists singing to the camera. we wanted to do the opposite and use the words of the song to give them more meaning.

Shooting Schedule

This is the shooting schedule for filming out story boards. Within this we have planned who is filming, when were filming, where were filming and what were filming. We have also added any extra information that we need to check such as, making sure the people are free that we need to film.

Original Storyboards 6 - 10

Original Storyboards 1 - 5

These were our first storyboards for our original idea. When it came to filming these, we realised it was not going to work so we had to change our idea completely.

Story Boards

Even through we found it hard at first to come up with an idea. When we decided what we wanted to happen in our video we sat down together, spreading the sheets out between us and worked as a group on different parts of the song together. Doing it this way was easier because it made doing the storyboards quicker.

Story Boards

To begin doing our story boards we had to sit down as a group and decide what we wanted to to happen in our video. because our song is about loosing someone and trying to hold on. We wanted to try and show this in our video.

Coming Up With An Idea

To be able to start planning, we had to sit down as a group and decide what song to do. We all had different genres that we wanted to do so we had to compromise, we decided to go for a song in the genre of grime/hiphop. The song we chose was Lazee Ft. Neverstore - Hold On. In a video of this genre, we would need to used props such as watches or some sort of jewelery. The artsits costume would also need to reflect their lifestlye. Also alot of focus in the vidoe would be on teh artists themselves.

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