Filming Day 5

Filming Day 5 - Location : My house

Props/costume  : pictures and necklace

Pictures - to burn in the final shots
necklace - piece of iconography ( necklace from boyfriend with his initial on it)
costume - white top (purity and innocence) also to be used as a pyjama top

Locations: Bedroom and garden

The bedroom will be used as the female is waking up in a sad and heartbroken mood.

The garden will be used to shoot the footage of the female burning photos as it wont be safe to do so inside the house.

Binary opposites:

Above are two images of the same female in our music video,Nikita. Myself and my group member wanted to portray Nikita as a weak, heartbroken and vulnerable female so I bought a white t shirt for her to wear at the start of the video. This highlighted her purity and innocence in the break down of her relationship with her boyfriend. In comparison, we wanted to highlight a change in the females attitude by changing her clothing, makeup and hair. So we gave her a different hairstyle, darker clothing and heavier makeup, this footage will be used as the female is burning the photos of herself and her ex - boyfriend. By showing these two sides of the female character we hope that our audience are clearly able to understand the narrative


*Update:

Today I filmed at home independently. The plan was to film the first part of the music video (female waking up) and the last part ( female burning images of her and her then boyfriend). Filming was very difficult, with it being winter it got dark very quickly and I had to resort to using artificial light. However, it made the shots look very unnatural and unclear. Having looked back at the footage I have decided to re-shoot the first half next week as I have identified where I went wrong. Secondly, there were many obstacles in filming outside, although I checked the weather beforehand I didn't expect rain the whole day. When filming the scenes outside it was clear that it wasn't going to work, due to the wind we were unable to light the matches and the females hair kept blowing in her face which made it extremely hard to see her facial expression. Although we were able to capture some good shoots during Filming Day 5, most of the footage will have to be re done as soon as possible