First Day Of Filming - Artist Solo Scenes

Time & Date:    17/10/10  2pm onwards

Scenes:             Solo scenes of artist

Locations:          Barbican Serviced Offices

                          Central Point

                          45 Beech Street

                          London

                          EC2Y 8AD

Equipment:        2 Canon Video Cameras, Still Digital Camera, Reflectors, Gels, Camera Lights, Lighting Kit, Tapes

Director: Mia & Amanda    Camera: Mia & Amanda    Production Manager: Mia

All our equipment is shown here during set up.

Sets:

Set 1: This is the bench used in the solo sequence, Lizzie sits on this bench with her legs outstretched. We thought this was effective as it made her legs look incredibly long and enhanced her sexuality with the high heels still in the shot whilst still being able to see her face clearly as a long shot was not needed to fit her whole body into the frame whilst in this position.

Set 2: This is the roof terrace, we filmed more footage of Lizzie miming to her song whilst she held on to these railings. We found the background of all the Barbican flats, typically recognisable as London, to be very effective at showing where Lizzie is from so much so that we changed our original idea of having Lizzie wear a union jack t-shirt as part of her costume to show her "Britishness" as we felt that the background of these shots had already taken care of that aspect of marketing. Whilst shooting on the roof we had to deal with a problem that we hadn't accounted for: the sun. We ended up having to wait about 20 minutes for the sun to go behind a building as the reflector was doing absolutely nothing to the glare and shadow the sun was creating however after the wait the shits came out extremely well.

Set 3: This glass brick wall was the set where we filmed more footage of Lizzie miming in her blue dress costume. We chose this as through the glass the blue carpet can be seen and when the light hits the glas the blue reflections complimented the blue dress very well. We also chose the blue as it connotes sadness which is obviously very significant for this particular song. The extension cord we used to plug in the laptop and play the track for Lizzie to mime to was not long enough so we had to find another. We also had very little space whilst filming and ended up having to lean over the banisters so that we could create the shots we wanted to. The lighting also caused issues here as there was too much shadow however we managed to use the reflector to bounce most of the shadow away.

Set 4: This image shows Lizzie taking a quick break from a hard days filming sitting against a curved white wall. We chose this particular background as the curved wall bounced the lighting very effectively and this and the gels we used combined made the images taken from these shots very flattering. The black costume against the white background is very striking and also very common for RnB videos. As you can see by this point Lizzie was very tired but the shots still came out surprisingly well.

The shoot went extremely well and we were really happy with all the shots.

This is an example of a page from our Edit Decision List and Me using it to help with log and capture. The EDL helped us to differentiate between usable and unusable shots quickly and easily.