Digipack

I aided Andrew, Tom and Sophie in the further design of the digipack. We agreed on this design for our front cover.

This was an idea to either use in the digipack or the website.

Second Filming Session

Today, we returned to Suffolk Lodge to film more sequences for the video. This time we were using streets near and around Suffolk Lodge and using the house as a base to store equipment and charge the camera halfway through filming.
Wall Shots:

This filming was done in a small neighbourhood near Sulfolk lodge. We used the wall for various shots using slight variation in costumes. We filmed the chorus and second verse on this section of Filming. This was filmed mainly by me and Tom where we did midshots of her in front of the wall and close ups of her face at each side of the wall.

Walking Shots:

This involved Sophie walking down the street in her red corset while I filmed her singing the chorus. This took a few takes as we had to make sure Sophie's and myself's speeds were equal. As this was a handheld shot, I also had to make sure that it was not too shaky.

Final Shots:

We filmed the final shots of Sophie from across the road. This involved Sophie walking towards the camera, singing the final chorus and throwing her corset away to represent her change in personality and her loss of insecurities. This filming was done mainly by Tom who I assisted in the positioning of camera.

Filming delay

We planned to film today on the 15th of October. However, there was a burst water pipe in the area which closed the school/college which meant that we could not collect the equipment to film with.

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First Filming Session

In our first filming session, we filmed at a place called Suffolk Lodge in Beeston. We began by putting the camera on charge, preparing the settings on the camera and having a look around the location. We then began taking various photos of the location and of Sophie.

Location Shots:

After the camera was charged, we started filming some location shots. We began with some pan shots of the house which Tom and I filmed. This also included a close up of the sign which said 'Suffolk lodge'. Sophie and Tom then went to rehearse the argument which we were going to film. In the meantime, Andrew and I filmed various shots of the garden. I filmed shots of the bench which we would use later, a 360 shot of the garden and a shot of the birdhouse.

Arguement Scene:

When Sophie and Tom were ready, I got a coffee table from inside the house to balance the tripod on because the tripod could not go as high as we needed it to. I practised steady zooming to make the shot look proffessional and steady. When we started filming, it took a few times as there was the issue of Tom or Sophie unintentionally ducking out of the frame prematurely. Eventually, we managed to get one good shot of it.

Bench Scene:

We filmed a scene on a bench where Sophie would sing the first part of the first verse. The first shot I filmed was a shot of an empty bench where she walks over and sits on it. I then filmed her singing the first verse in long shot before we repeated the verse in close-up and midshot from a new angle.

Corset and Cage Scene:

Sophie then changed into her Red Corset to do the next part of the filming. This is supposed to represent a change in Sophie's character. We filmed a few different shots of Sophie dancing in the cage while singing the first pre-chorus and the chorus.

Digipack and Website

We began work on the digipack and website today where we all made seperate contributions. To begin, I created a template on Paintshop Pro to outline how I believed the photos should be divided. However, I realised soon that Paintshop Pro could not import or combine images, which would make it difficult to work with later. This motivated me to create the digipack section in Paint, as it's interface is better.

Afterwards, I began to experiment on Dreamweaver to try and learn how to create a website. After a long while, I understood its important features such as "CSS types" and created a basic version of what the website might look like.

Questionnaire

This is the questionnaire our group created. We were decided that we would get the best sample if we all handed it out to ten people each. The questionnaire asks questions about what an audience wants in a video, in a digipack and on a website.