Filming Diary

Saturday  7^th  January

• Our artist was unable to come to the shoot as she had a Saturday revision class.

Wednesday 11^th January

• After school today we took pictures of our artists so that we could do our construction and be able to explain what costume they will be wearing and how their hair and make- up will be.
• We also practised video-in-video, Haddi directed Ria and Moses, she asked them to sit on the playground bench and hold a frame for 10seconds, then start acting. Haddi explained exactly what she wanted them to do. We didn't want the picture to look too posed as it wouldn't look natural. 

Friday 13^th January

• Unfortunately we were unable to film today as Ria and Moses had school commitments they had to attend to.

Saturday 14^th January

• Today we went out filming today, because we had issues with finding a room to film, we didn't want to waste another day of not filming. We had to tweak our storyboard and make a few changes, we decided to change it to where Ria would be waiting for Moses outside a restaurant, where she gets a text saying that he wont be able to make it. We had ria sitting by a water fountain and outside a restaurant where she looked disappointed and let down once again because he had cancelled on her.
• Issues we faced when filming: because it gets dark really quickly, we had to work at a faster pace in order to have got this section done. There were continuity issues as we were in Canary Wharf and it is a busy area, so if we were unable with the footage we had to go out and film it again.

Thursday 19th January

• Today we focused on the middle of the music video, where Ria was mainly in the bedroom, going through a memory box from the things Moses had given her. We used a range of camera shots, so that the camera wasn't placed in one shot and there was more of a variety. 
• Issues we faced when filming: unfortunately, our artist still hadn't learnt the lyrics of the song, she is currently in year11 and hasn't had time to do do. So the boost her confidence we were singing along with her and Idowu had her phone connected to speakers so we could listen to the song and to make sure the lip syncing was accurate. 

Friday 20th January

• Today we will be focusing on the beginning of the song, where Ria is preparing a meal for Moses as it is his birthday. She has gone through all this effort to find out that he's out shopping with another girl.
• Issues we faced when filming: the actor was being uncooperative as it was late and we had been filming till late the previous night.

Friday 27th January

• Today, will hopefully be last day of filming, we have little bits which we need to include, and tweak a few things. We have decided to had a spotlight scene, where Ria is singing to the camera, we thought this would be effective as we haven't really covered the notion of looking.
• Issues we faced when filming:
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• Wednesday 1st February 2012
• Today we reviewed all our footage and found that it followed little conventions of an RNB  female video. se we Re filmed the middle in a more dressed up bedroom with silk red sheets.
• Issue we faced when filming:We had little issue faced whilst filming the new and improved bedroom scene  as we had planned prior to us filming.  

Wednesday 15 February 2012 
Today we lost all our footage due to our memory card being damaged. we will be filming tomorrow throughout the weekend. so we can still film within our deadline. 


Sunday 19 February
We have so finished filming the beginning narrative including the dinner scene and the middle the bedroom scene. all that left to do is the filming of the ending narrative and addition lip syncs.


Wednesday 14 March 2012  
We have finish filming our music videos however we are now editing our footage, we also working on our print task. Below is examples of how we improved our footage... 

Video 1

This video show how we developed our opening scene further. Previously we panned up on our artist, but in our improved footage we intexualised with Keyisha Cole video. 

• Improving mis-en-scene is evidently in the video, she is wearing  a seductive dress and her hair is braided to the side and dyed red. 
• the location is has also change we used blue and red satin sheets to create a glamour's and sexy bedroom. 

Video 2

As a group we had to be supportive of our artist so we sang along with her.  

•  The camera angle has changed 
• we have chosen to put red lipstick on our artist as it is a common convention of RnB females video
• We have used a different background. 

Video 3

whilst looking at our footage we found that their wasn't enough shots that showed our artist looking glamourous and seductive. We re filmed this bit i particular and was a success. her red lipstick really pops.