Production of Music Video: Wednesday 26th October Filming

On Wednesday, we filmed the second part of our music video. We arrived outside of College at 10:30am and set off to our locations, which was at Liverpool Street and Newington Green Park. Here are some scenes that we photographed to show what we did. We first went to Liverpool Street and found a great area where we could film. But we immediately had problems because as we were setting up the equipment, a security guard came over and told us that we were not allowed to film in this part of the area, as it was private area, which we were unaware of. Due to this obstacle, we had to find another area to film in Liverpool Street. We finally found a place that we thought would be perfect and decided shoot there.

We first wanted a close up shot of our artist singing the whole song as another base track, so that when we are editing, we can go back and forth from various base tracks. You cane see that we just wanted to focus from her chest and above so you can see her dress which is black based on an ‘emo’ outfit and her face that had her ‘emo’ look make up. We wanted to make sure that the camera focused perfectly level on her. We also had to position the camera perfectly because if we didn’t you were able to see the reflection of the camera and ourselves on the window.

We also focused the camera just on her lips as she sang the whole song because her lips had a shade of red on, in contrast from the other previous shots. 


We also recorded a scene where our artist – Yumi, is at the centre of an ally way where it’s very over crowded. We shot this scene for just over a minute and half because what our objective is for this scene is that when we are editing, we want Yumi to be standing still in real motion and have the people around her walking in fast motion. We want this effect because we want to show how our artist is feeling almost invisible, that nobody is noticing her, she almost feels an outsider who lost her identity. We were very wary of the fact that it was raining very heavily but we used this to our advantage as the dismal weather played onto her character of an ‘emo’ look. It was also very, very cold, so we prioritised in keeping Yumi warm by having her wear her jacket after each shot we recorded. 

Filming on the swings to emphasise
that she is alone in a happy
environment - contrast from location
her feelings

After filming in Liverpool Street for the ‘emo’ look, we had Yumi change again into the last look; the ‘party’ look in the fashion shop called ‘Monsoon’. We then went back to the sitting area at ‘Starbucks’ so that Fahmida can apply the ‘party’ look make up which consists of emphasising her lips by adding red lipstick, eyeliner and eye shadow onto Yumi. We headed off to our last location in Newington Green Park to shoot the ‘party’ look. This was because we felt that the park hindered the fact she was by herself with her thoughts, thinking things over in an environment that she feels that she has lost connection with. Here in this picture you will see that we have her sitting on a bench, we had the camera fixed on he spot where we would incorporate jump cuts of Yumi moving from position to position. This effect should hone into her current state of mind. All of this was to lead to the greatest impact to our music video when in the end, she finally finds herself, and she starts taking her make up off by wiping aggressively off her lip stick.