Production of Main Task- Filming Music Video and Location spotting

As I was working in a group with Michael Morris, we firstly outlined what we would do individually and collectively. When planning our task Michael was given the task of filming our small video section which highlighted how we came up with our ideas, the locations we had decided to film in and who will be casted for the music video. Once that had been decided you went on to filming our main project.

-As I mostly specialized in editing and Michael was extremely keen to film our project it was a rather straight forward decision to decide who was going to do what.

-On the first day of filming we were up at the great hall at our College, Elliot (main protagonist in the video) was filmed dancing on the stage in front of the three different judges. As we used Michael as one of the judges I was in charge of these shots, we thought that the shots and angles that we did use fitted the scene extremely well and did not break the ever frustrating 180 degree rule.

- Once we had finished filming in the great hall we filmed Elliot leaving the main entrance of the college, the idea behind this was as he walked 'into the light' (biblical reference) the character realized that it is not the end of the world and he can dance.

-On the second day of filming we shot Elliot leaving the college groups via the main gate, again we used many different angles, including a front and back angle shot and then we had a match on action shot of the animals leaving the grounds with Elliot. Michael filmed every single one of these shots, the key angle I believe was the front mid-shot as it shows all of the animals coming out from behind the gates to comfort and dance with Elliot.

-Later that day we went into the town centre, we both took terms filming different shots and angles of Elliot dancing individually and collectively with the different animals at different times. We thought it was highly necessary to film plenty of mid shots from different angles so that the audience with have a clear view of what they were doing.

-On the third and final day of filming Michael shot the high and low angle shots of the animals and of Elliot dancing, this was done mostly to add a variation of angles to add much needed variation to the filming. Again this was mostly filmed in town as it gave us easy access to people in the streets who were willing to dance randomly for our music video. We managed to persuade roughly three different individuals to dance, we wanted to get random people from the streets to dance in the music video to add a different dimension tour video, almost to encourage any to dance how they like and 'let themselves go' on the weekend.

Final Day of filming review: