We started our main shoot week on the Monday of the week beginning the 21st November.On the Friday prior to this Monday where we were scheduled to start filming, there was some complications due to medical issues with me meaning that I still had a dressing around my head from a recent operation. We had to rethink our ideas quickly and logically as a team and Ella put herself forward to replace my role of "Mira" in our music video which we were all very thankful for.
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| This is our main shoot schedule |
Studio Shoot:
Monday:On Monday we were scheduled to film our white set-up. This was the simplest and quickest set-up to prepare because all the lights were left white. I prepared the set by laying down our balloons and white box lights while Ella got herself dressed and did her make-up in the natural look we were going for. I then helped her with her hair and we were very happy with the end result.
Below is a short clip of a close-up we filmed showing her hair styling and make-up.
We were able to use the dolly in the main shoot which we didn't use in the test shoot. This was fun to experiment with and I think the shots turned out really well with the white background particularly as it made the room look distorted almost.
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| we had to make sure all our shots were focused and we did this by zooming in and focusing their eyes |
Below is a shot I filmed on the dolly which I particularly liked. I had to take a few shots until I got the curve completely smooth.
We spent the whole day doing this white set-up and everything went according to plan; we even got to wrap-up early.
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| filming the close up of Ella WHITE |
Tuesday:
We started afresh on Tuesday morning with our blue set-up. I scattered some blue fake flower petals on the floor of our cyclorama and added the box lights on the blue setting. We had already saved our lighting set up for blue in our test shoot so I just had to adjust some of the light positions with Emma and lighting was done!
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| Me focusing Jack for the mid shot |
Above is a clip of a few sections within our full song dolly shot which have been merged together. I really enjoyed filming on the dolly because it was something I had never tried before and I was impressed with the effect it gave. The dolly shots were essential in creating variety in our music video in order to keep the audience entertained.
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| Ella's blue make-up/hair look |
We wrapped up our shoot with a reflections video...
( when I say "shots" I mean lights!)
Below is the rush we took which I talk about in the reflections video. We decided not to use this footage in our music video as we didn't like the angle.
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| The behind the scenes of the floor shot! |
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| Us moving the set around until it looked perfect on the monitor |
On Wednesday we filmed our pink set-up. This was my favourite set-up because I really liked the way Ella's hair, make-up and outfit looked and I enjoyed setting the lights up; they looked really cool.
Above is a clip of some of the 'beauty' shots Pru took showing Ella's hair and make-up.
I also really enjoyed filming the dolly of the pink set-up. I have inserted a clip below of the best bits.
We didn't have any complications while filming this set-up and we were very happy with the outcome.
Thursday:
On Thursday we filmed pick-ups where we needed them. We only decided to film a few extra close-ups as we realised we were lacking in them after re-watching our footage. We managed to also do some editing because we finished early.
Jack and Ella's performance skills were very good so we didn't need to re-film anything regarding that side of things.
Friday:
On Friday we had planned to take our promo shots. We had previously taken all our promo shots on location so all that was left was to get the close-ups of Jack and Ella for the album cover, and a range of shots for our website.
This was our plan for the studio shots:
We took photos in 4 different set-ups in the studio:
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| Ella by herself wearing short strapless evening dress |
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| Jack and Ella in the white set-up wearing casual clothes and lounging on a sofa |
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| Jack and Ella on a green background wearing camouflage-type print clothing |
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| Jack and Ella wearing brands popular among youth culture in London-trendy style |
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| The album cover close-up of Ella |
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| The album cover close-up of Jack |
We were very pleased with all of our studio promo shots and location shots and are thankful we took such a range and so many as we are now able to make a whole page on images on our website. It is very important to offer a variety of visual representations of our artist keeping in line with their style which appeals to the TA, and we believe we achieved this.
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