Summary of filming the first scene

We filmed the first section of our music video on Monday, this went well due to the whole group pulling their weight and all having an input in to the organisation before hand and also during filming, with Clarice and I setting up the scene, and then while I set up the camera equipment and tested the it with the lighting Jasmine and Clarice dressed the numerous actors we had for the shot. Setting up consisted of clearing Clarice's dinning area moving the table and chairs out of sight and removing anything from the room that could get broken. We then placed a few chairs around the room, especially the armchair as it was to be the focus point as it would be where our "goon" would be sitting and so this had to be placed accordingly for the shot. For mise en scene we placed alcholic drinks made up of empty bottles filled with different strengths of tea to achieve realistic colouring and bottles of beer for some of the actors to drink to keep an effective feel to the shot seeing as we were filming during the afternoon.

Camera equipment consisted of my Panasonic SD-10 with a 0.43x Wide Angle lens. The lighting then consisted of blacking out the windows using spare curtains from the drama studio, a strobe light set up behind the camera to give the impression of the party that we wanted and the built in light on the camera to draw focus to the subject. The actors were arranged so that I could still walk through what seemed to be a crowd and still be able to film the vital sections of the shot. Jasmine and Clarice featured in the shots and because of this could give instant feedback on anything that wasn't working from a different perspective. This meant that we got 16 shots, many of which contained usable footage for the important first few seconds of our video.