Filming - Part Two

Set Up
The second part of my filming involved four actors, this section made up the narrative part of the music video. I had to make sure the whole set was organised correctly, the more people and actors on set whilst filming can make it difficult to focus on the task at hand, however, once everyone has been organised and briefed they can prove to be very helpful on set.

This time round the storyboards played a bigger part than in the last filming process, I needed to have them ready so that I could follow along as I filmed and so that I covered each aspect of the narrative.

In this section I wanted to reflect the lyrics in the song, so that the audience have a visual representation of what they are hearing in a comical and light-hearted manner. I also wanted to created a distinction between the young singer and the older actor, the young singer could be seen as a younger representation of the older actor. The actor, however,  is someone that the audience will find an amusing character as he try to charm a girl.

Filming
The process ran much more smoothly than I first thought it was going to be, I imagined filming the short narrative to become very stressful as shots were missed or the actors were not moving as directed.

The actual filming was very consistent, I planned out what I wanted to film and how I wanted to do it and by following the storyboards as I filmed I made sure that each shot was filmed in order so not to get confused. However, to simplify the process the outside shots were all shot together outside and the inside shots were all done together at the same time. This saved time and meant I didn't have to keep moving the camera and tripod in and out of the house.

The narrative had to be followed along whilst the filming took place, this helped to make sure the shots were synchronized with the storyline making the editing process a lot easier.

The same rules applied to this filming process as the last, two good shots of each scene where taken this ensured that there was enough footage to edit.

Lighting became another issue as the camera did not produce high quality footage the lighting became dull in areas. Also, even though the camera was set to automatic focus, it would move in and out of focus in areas during a take. This meant that some scenes took three or four takes to get right.


Example of Filming #2 from N Kumar on Vimeo.