Filming day 1

Done By Jessica
Our first day of filming was a great experience for us as a group and as individuals. Maybe because it a was the first time we set out to do a task like that, but we all seemed very enthusiastic about it all. The venue or location we used in our music video was Jessica's house. There were several rooms we filmed in:

• Bathroom
• Dinning Room/Kitchen
• Bedroom

In order to make this work we needed to make sure that

Bedroom - (Narrative & Performance)

The bedroom is where we will be filming majority of the performance. We purposely choose to structure because of the concept of the song '4AM and her lover is not home'. Moreover to implement this into our music video we decide that by filming our main actress in the bedroom by herself would put more emphasis on the concept. 

Bathroom - (Narrative) 

The bathroom we shall filming the intimate part of our music video. With the help of rose petals and a bubble bath we tend to create the illusion that our actress is supposed to have a romantic evening with her boyfriend; as well showing her preparing for their romantic evening. 

Kitchen - (Narrative)

Kitchen is another part of our narrative, in which we intend to use the kitchen to show her preparing for her romantic night - cooking the food etc. 

Dinning Room  - (Narrative/filmed in our second meeting)

The dinning room is one of the important part of a narrative; this will show our actress waiting on her boyfriend by herself, as well as attempting to call him. 

Props used

• Nikon and Cannon camera 
• Tripod
• Tracking equipments 
• Bed
• Studio Light 
• Bedroom Light 
• Natural Light
• Torch 
• Lamp Light 
• Fairy Liquid
• Rose and daisy petals and buds 

After coming to an understand of what we will be filming in my house we arranged to meet at my house (_). Our first filming everyone arrived at my house around 6pm - filming at 6pm was essential because it was the darkest earliest time we could meet, the darkness played a great role in our music video. Before we began filming, we recapped over our plan:

      - We decided to divide our filming session into sections

            - The bedroom 

            - Kitchen 

            - Bathroom 

Luckily we had both Mrs Mclukie's camera and Sath's camera, this made our filming move much faster. 

Outcome 

1. Bedroom

- Setting up

Setting up the bedroom for the performance was rather easy as everything was in place, however the problem we faced was our lighting - we were struggling to create the night time illusion without our actress coming across dark on camera. We found the light bulb was not light enough, moreover we decided to use studio lights (supplied by Prince), although the extent in which the studio lights, lit up the room completely destroyed the night illusion. We placed the studio lights in several positions to reduce the amount of the light; as you see in the short clip,Prince tired placing the studio light in the corner of my wardrobe - this created a nice glow to room however our actress still came across dark. Nonetheless we resulted in using   a torch along with the studio lights; positioning the torch on the actress face which allowed her to come across much lighter on the camera. (place video) Additionally one of the problems which slowed down our filming significantly is our actress constant forgetting the lyrics, this wasted a lot of time.

- Costumes

Our actress got changed in one of the other rooms. We wanted our viewers to view the couple as an intimate couple as well as them getting the impression she was/is so much in love with the guy. Moreover we dressed her in a black basketball jersey (supplied by Joshua - my brother), but made her where a necklace in order for her to still have a feminine look in male clothing.  (insert picture)

- Camera Shots 

The shots which we used in filming the bedroom scene were:

•  Medium Shots
• Close up shots 
• Pan
• Long shots 

        2.  Bathroom

- Setting up

Similar to the bedroom, setting up was quite easy as we did not have to install any appliances. To create the bubble bath we used cold water and added a lot of Fairy Up liquid - this failed greatly as the water produced a few bubbles and stayed green (which completely diminished the romantic, intimate scene we were trying to create). We tired to disguised the green water by adding a lot of flowers, unfortunately for us we were unable to find red rose, therefore we were force to result in using pink flowers and daisy flowers. The pink flowers and daisy flowers caused problems as they seemed to wrinkle in the cold water and not float long enough.

- Costumes

We made our actress Queen wear a simple black vest top and leggings, in which she covered with a comfy bathroom robe. We made sure robe completely hid the fact that she was wearing a vest top and positioned the camera to hide her leggings, in order to create the illusion that she is not wearing anything underneath - adding to our intimate scene.

- Camera Shots

We took only two types of shots in the bathroom:

• Extreme close up 
• Close up 

We wanted to focus greatly on the bath and the flowers in the bath.

        3. Kitchen

- Setting up 

In the kitchen we recorded the preparation of the meal, we also used the kitchen to in some ways carry on the intimate atmosphere we created first in the bathroom. We used large florescent lights (fitted already in the kitchen) to light up our scene, by lighting up one half of our kitchen we were able to avoid eliminating the night time illusions.

- Costumes

As the kitchen is used to show the progression in her preparation we made sure our actress had a change of clothing. We dressed her in black shiny leggings with a white peplum top and a gold statement necklace, along with black opened toe.

- Camera Shots
The camera shots we took in the kitchen were:

• Close up
• Pan 
• Focus pull
• Tracking shot 
• Extreme close up 
• Medium shot
• Long shot