Shooting In The Headmaster's Office- Filming

In preparation for this part of filming we created 4 posters that were used in shots and during this filming period- they read, "Detention list", "Students to Cane list", "How to Cane" and "Student Discipline". During the filming process we shot in a location relate to our lyrics "Sits alone and bends his cane" so we decided to shoot in our headteacher's office. We place the lyrics on a wall around the office, we used close ups on these titles and also the information on the posters.

We decided to use hand held shots when we were in the office so we could also use panning around the room to reveal the location until we got to the posters. We also tried to film a singer on the headmaster's singing while turning on the chair however this was unsuccessful.

Shooting "Smashing Up The Woodwork Tools"- Filming

Today we filmed footage in the woodwork room at our school- for the line 'smashing up the woodwork tools' for this we shot in the technique of stop motion animation by moving the tools slightly in one shot and moving in further in another. This created the illusion that the tools were moving on there own. The type of shots we used were high angle and eye line match, we also placed a comical character of 'zippy' in the backdrop to make it humorous and the shot more interesting.

Booking Rooms and Actors-Planning

During todays lesson we have confirmation from our head teacher who also will be playing the head teacher in our music video that we will be able to film him on Tuesday 29th September, and also will be able to use his office on Wednesday 30th September. We have also booked a woodwork room to be used Tuesday 29th September during period one in school. In preparation for this we need to make sure we have organised our props and well as making posters. We have also booked a FIG-RIG with Mr Winters (our media tech) .

Shooting In The Playground and Establishing Shots -Filming

In today's shooting session, Myself, Sheriece and Tom decided we would shoot in the playground and also outside school for footage. We decided to follow our storyboard and have a ball bounce across the camera screen. We experiment with this shot by placing the camera on the floor and bouncing the ball at the camera but making sure the ball bounced over it, however this was not effective so we decided to record a long shot of the ball bouncing across the screen with the camera on a tripod.

We then filmed the establishing shot of our school sign in a close up, we are hoping to change the school sign to have another name over it on the Mac Computers in the editing stages with Final Cut.

Shooting In The Recording Studio- Filming

As we needed to re-record a female version of the title song 'Baggy Trousers' we decided to film most of our video in the recording studio. Myself and Tom recorded Sheriece and Stacey singing into the recording mic in three different shots, the camera I was filming from was in a mid shot. We also used a handheld camera to get a moving shot effect that is common in all music videos.

We continued to film over another session, however this time Tom filmed the technincal equipment while I continued to film shots of Sheriece and Stacey (the band). The main focus was to record the girls singing so that we could use their verison of the song and break conventions of the genre by using all female Ska band.

Shooting Schedule

Here is an uploading of my shooting schedule-

Storyboards- Part 4

Final uploading of our storyboards- finished timing and edit types for the frames included.