Seeing as we had three cameras to our use this time, we decided upon seeing how our first day of shooting went that we would do a full song run through which we did about three or four times. This involved me sitting in a tree singing the whole song while being recorded from three different perspectives. This saved time drastically and gave us three points of performance that we could choose from when in post-production.
The next thing we decided to film was the crunching of the leaves under the feet and a tracking shot of the side to show that 'Amanda' is following it. This shot will then flow into her discovering the heart covered in red thread in the centre of the tree from three different perspectives shown below:
These shots didn't take too long to shoot and only took a few try's to get them right. The last few shots that we did involving the 'Heartwood Tree' was me prancing around it, as we liked the idea and shots from the first day of shooting but they were too dark so we had to redo them all. from doing this we also obtained a lovely close-up shot of me walking towards the camera lip-syncing which really secures that connection that i have with the audience.
After that we decided to take on the photo tree and started to set it up putting photos all over it attaching them to string. We had a dress change to the green and blue halter-neck dress of variation and began filming the next few set of shots. We filmed some performance of me next to the photo tree looking at the photos and singing t the audience, we then shot me ripping down all the photos in a twirly dancy kind of manner. After that we tried out Keeley's brilliant idea of a shot of me next to a photo of an eye and positioned myself so that it covered on of my eyes. this was mainly for the lyrics "imperfected me will not be seen". It took us quite a while to do this shot as the wind kept blowing and the eye kept moving, so I had to hold onto it instead. Next we filmed some close-ups of me ripping a photo to finish off the photo tree section of the music video.
As the sun was setting we decided to get a move on and film the shots involving the long flowing magnolia coloured dress.First we filmed some running shots in which we decreased the frame rate on the camera so when we slow it down in editing, it will flow better and have a batter quality. we filmed from the top of the path up the few steps they had, and I stared just below the steps. This was very effective when looking back at the shot as the path ended and the sunset began. We then filmed some close-ups of the dress floating down the stairs which worked very well as it flowed just like we wanted it to. Next up we shot me at the top of the stairs holding onto the ends of the dress and flowing it around which we also decreased the frame rate for. for the last few shots we shot me from the back looking out to the sunset dramatically holding the ends of the dress and lifting them up slowly as they get blown by the wind. Our last shot was a tracking shot of my feet running from the side down the path in which we planned to use for the chorus.
After the long old day we decided to go home and it was just in time as our cameras had slowly began to run out of battery. We looked at the footage that we shot and were very happy! We cant wait to start editing it!
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