Filming: Day 2

On our second day of filming, we had shooted the scenes for the introduction of our music video. Because we were filming in the dark room in our school, we did not have to go on a particular location which made it a lot easier for all of us incase we had to pick up anything that we had forgotten from the media department or to charge anything that died while filming.
Using the dark room in the art department for this scene, we had previously planned to play around with lights and shadows to make the introduction interesting, which we did. This was challenging as the dark room was not built for filming and as such did not have enough space for us to move the camera around much, however we worked around that and were able to capture some good footage.

Before filming, we came across a problem where we were not allowed to use the professional lights as some students had broken them beforehand. Instead of rescheduling, we had improvised and used the lights on Kimberley's and Iva's phone which was bright enough for the shots we needed. This had meant that our idea of having filtered lights was not possible to do. Instead, what we had done was use silhouettes of writing from projector paper to create interesting shots. We had wrote the title of the song and the lyrics of the first verse. Filming this, we were able to shoot some more cut aways in case we needed to fill up any spaces in the video. Overall, despite our problems, we had all manged to improvise, take up a challenge and achieve a good outcome.  
 

Filming: Day 1

Our first day of filming was successful. Myself and my group had managed to shoot all the shots we needed from our first location which is the forest in Wimbledon Common. This location offered some lovely wildlife and horse riders too, we attempted to capture some riders for cut aways.  What we also did was experiment with the camera to get differents shots and angles so that it will be useful for when it comes to our editing. We had started shooting around 2:30 knowing that in a short time it will start getting dark, so what we had done to speed up the process was use two other cameras. Filming at this time also allowed us to capture a beautiful sunset that allowed us to film silhouettes of the trees. For the filming, we had used the schools camera with a tripod which proved to work well for tracking and panning, my camera and Iva's video camera on her Iphone. Using these three cameras not only saved us time, but also allowed us to experiment with the different angles which gave us a good outcome. However, the only downside using three different cameras is the different qualities. We found that the quality on Iva's Iphone was far more better in comparision to the school camera which could give us problems when editing our msuic video.

    

Artist Information

Sarah Elizabeth Blasko is an Australian singer-songwriter and a musician. After fronting Sydney-based band Acquiesce from the mid-1990s, she developed her solo career from 2002. In 2007, she won the 'Best Pop Release' for What the Sea Wants, the Sea will have at the ARIA Music Awards, which peaked at #7 on the ARIA Albums Chart. In 2009, Her latest album, As Day Follows Night, reached #5 and won the 'Best Female Artist' at the ARIA Awards. In 2002, Blasko decided to go solo and wrote/co-wrote material for her debut release which appeared in September, later produced by Blasko with Schneider and Steve Francis. She released and promoted her material independently, with financial assistance from her manager Craig New. She also produced the music video for lead track, "Your Way", which was played on local community radio, and national broadcaster, together with two other tracks, "Will You Ever Know" and "Be Tonight". "Your Way" was featured on new Sydney community radio station 2FBi when it first broadcast full-time. Blasko was signed to Brisbane-based label, Dew Process, which repackaged and re-released Prelusive in March 2003. Due to minor variations in packaging, the earlier independent release is more valuable to collectors.

Planning: Locations:1

Deciding what locations we need, we had to find ones which are near by to all of us so that it is less time consuming and more convenient. For our fist location, we have chosen Wimbledon Common in Wimbledon Village. It is a local park that is vast in size and has a variety of beautiful trees and wildlife. We will be commencing filming at Wimbledon Common tomorrow for our outside shots. We had checked to see what the weather was like in order for all of us to decide if we are able to film or not. The weather forecast was set to be mild for December, around 5 degrees which will be good to film in.