Finally Filming

Finally, we decided to give up on our origional idea of the hall as it our efforts to secure a period in there were not paying off. We decided to use Pendefords dance studio. This wasnt too bad as we found 4 small stages we could use to begin our piece, as our first shot was of us all posing into the camera, we just positioned the stages so we could all be seen and did our poses here, and then our walk forward would be us coming off the small stages. This worked well and gave the video a proffesional look. We also found some tall lamps in the back room which we decided to use. These were just normal 60 watt white bulbs, however, we found when we turned the main lights off and just had these lights shining behind the camera and straight at us, it gave the film a more music video style, as it was bright, making the film look grainy and almost rough, this added affect to the film and when we uploaded it we liked the way the filming wasn't too bright. We then filmed ourselvs using a long - shot of holding 2 poses for 8 counts each. We then filmed us strutting towards the camera just like all the girl bands. This is all the filming we did that day as we wanted to change the room we were in after this. We then went back to the classroom and I began editing the footage with input from the other 3 girls. We messed around with the first bits of filming as they were very easy to edit as they were just stills. I changed the colours to make it flash to green red and blue on each word of the song. We then reviewed this footage and found that this colour change made the film look even more grainy, adding to the effect we were trying to create. We then looked at the footage of us walking forward and found that if we darkened it again and it fitted well with the idea we started to create, this looked very professional, such as Beyonces 'Love me' video.