Today i filmed the sunset from my bedroom window, this seems to of turned out quite nicely and we plan to use it in our video. We are going to reverse the sunset so that it look like as much of a sunrise as possible.

Stop Animation

We wanted some stop animation into our music video, and so we went out to practise with stop animation. As we have already tried to film the sunrise many times we thought we could possibly make the sun out of some petals or flowers.

We have decided to just use the two flowers at 0.09seconds, we would also like to possibly has a fast sunrise comeing up or possibly as a stop animation for the opening of our video.

New Shots!

We have used our footage from what we filmed on Wednesday to make our Music Video More professional. Here are a few print screens of the shots.

This is our opening shot, and it is her lying on the ground singing 'Happiness hit her like a train on a track'. We chose this shot because we feel it creates synergy with our digipack Cover (below). It is also good because we can see her midshot and focus on the lip syncing rather than movement, which is a key part to our grade.

These shots we have used to show the sun, the sun is what we hope to start our Music Video so we want to display it as much as possible throughout.

We love this shot because we can see the lines of the train track and Elle who is playing the girl running from her past. I love this sky as it is a cloudy day yet the sun is overtaking the cloudy sky here. This is symbolism of the Dog Days being over for the protagonist.

This is a shot of Eleanor jumping, again displaying the sun, this is to show innocence, not only does the sun do that by creating a time of day where things are in the light. But also Her Jumping is a free and childish thing to do, again symbolising her happiness and newly found freedom.

For this shot I am sitting on a swing and eleanor is sitting on my lap, we have got some lovely shots from it, where the sun is beaming from her shoulder with the trees behind her, still keeping the same mise en scene but display freedom through the use of movement (as if she is flying in a way) sunlight (innocence) and just the freedom of her movement, even with her hair.

Today We Went Filming

To try and get the sunrise shot we wanted we all woke up at 4:30 am this morning to drive to Hampsted Heath and find a good shot on a hill of the whole of London with the Sun rising over it.

It did not go as planned as it was a cloudy day yet again, so we will need to go out and re-film.

Editing and Digipack Planning

Us Editing and planning our taking photos for Digipack.

Improvements To Be Made

After watching and spending time editing our footage I feel we still need to film a couple more things;

- Our Studio Footage

- More coupley times with George and Eleanor rather than just fighting

I think these would add more elements to the video, making it less superficial and would be easier for the audience to watch seeing as the story would make a lot more sense.

Today we tried filming some more singing shots. We took inspiration from this photo.

We tried to do recreate this by using the schools projector system bouncing of a whiteboard and hoping the light would bounce in the right direction, with the right amount of light which it did not. After playing with various ways to do this we found that it is not a good way to get this effect.

We have now found a few adjustable lights which we are going to aim on eleanor to try and get the effect. However we are yet to do so.

We have been filming some shots of the bad times, when she is with her boyfriend. We have been trying to get them fighting , and practised this many times to make it look as realistic as possible. I like the contrast of the overpowering male and the weaker female. However, I feel that when they're fighting she maybe needs to show a little more srength as the feable womna seen in these shots is a complete contrast with the stronger and more confident woman we see running away towards the end.The running away shots we have filmed from the boot of a car.After showing these shots to our Teachers and other classes we have feedback to show that the shot of Eleanor running straight towards the camera is our best, the line of the building in the background being constant whilst moving away in a straight line seems to be a professional shot.(1.31)

This is me filming Eleanor while she's lip synching on the rooftop. It was a very rainy day so afterwards we decided to film her jumping from the edgge into puddle this looks very effective,and also signifies the freedom the girl is gaining.

Framing and Composition

In this shot we have also used the Rule of Thirds as you can see Eleanor is standing on where one of the lines would be, creating an interesting focal point fto draw your eyes to.