Initial Edited Filming (Hall Place 1)

The filming we shot in Hall Place was varied in the sense of usability for our music video. Rosie, as our editor, arranged the footage in sections to make it easier to analyse. 

Section A: Animal Life 
As a rule we decided to use nature in our opening scene of the music video. Due to the environment of which we shot these scenes, the main wildlife was primarily geese. The shots of these animals are shaky due to the lack of a tripod which was have realised is essential for a professional, steady shot. They still have potential to be used in the opening of our video if slowed down although we are reluctant to do this, mainly due to the use of water birds not being in our initial concept for the video. We were testing shots really here due to our absence of a model which proved problematic. 

While Rosie was editing the footage, she suggested that a clean cut from clip to clip was rather harsh, not fluid enough for the type of video we are making which is basically a soft ballad. Instead, a fade was used as a transition from one clip to another. We do not plan on using this in our final piece as we hope there will be more flow from clip to clip instead of jumping as this does. 

As a group we quickly established that our most successful shot in this section was the birds flying although it was noted that the unwanted object of a lamp post is in the shot. This has made us more aware of our surroundings when filming as we do not want any extra anomalies in the final cut of the video.

Section B: Leaves 
This was purely a testing shot, determining how we can film from different angles and then assembly these in a video. We filmed the dropping of a leaf many times from numerous angles. Although meant ideally for testing purposes, we could use this footage as this conforms to our concept, more so than the use of the previous section, and would be particularly effective towards the end of the video, where the model walks through the nature. 

Section C: Interaction (Hugging)
Similar to the previous section, this footage is the same action shot from numerous angles, edited in such a way which the camera appears to be rotating around the people and then moving away. Rosie also incorporated a fade transition to show that time had progressed before the previous clip as a way of explaining why the shot had moved from a still shot of the bench to the two people walking. This kind of clip would be used the the first section of our music video if we chose to use it.

Section D: Every Day People 
This section was rather challenging to shoot particularly as we were trying to participate in covert filming in order to achieve the 'day to day' clips. We took inspiration from the initial Birdy video as that music video uses this type of footage. We tried to film actions that were not necessarily noticeable in day to day life, such as a man closing down his shop. These shots are extremely shaky, primarily due to the lack of a tripod and also due to the camera being used on a moving bus- which is not the smoothest of rides. We soon discovered this is not necessarily going to be achievable in our music video to the degree we wanted to include. 


Practically, we encountered some issues when filming. Our main issue was the model and her accessibility. We soon decided as a group that it would be more beneficial for us, and the model due to her own commitments and transport issues, if we changed our initial model. We have decided to now use one of our group members as the main model as we can count on her accessibility. This was a way of overcoming a problem we were concerned about. 

In attendance: Rosie, Hannah and Katie
Edited by Rosie