Location: Bigg’s House!
Today we only focused on a very short section of our video; in fact it will only make up about 3-5 seconds of our production.
We referred to these shots as the ‘flashback shots’, whereby they will be used in the very beginning of our video. They featured shots of us four girls (Sophie, Jodie, Charlotte and myself) in various scenarios with our friend Joe, who plays the lying boyfriend who you see has played off five girls at the same time.
The first shot we did was the ring shot; this is where Sophie and Joe sat on the sofa of what was meant to be Sophie’s home, and Joe presents her with a ring. For this shot we used a simple medium close up of the sofa and the two actors on it. It was positioned nicely, and the framing was just right. Sophie had a cup of tea in her hand as a prop, which we felt made it seem like a very homely shot (as we wanted it to be portrayed as an ordinary couple relaxing in their house). As it was somewhat awkward at first, we decided that we would add speech to the shots. This speech will not be heard on the actual video, but it adds a realistic element to the video as nobody would just sit there in silence.
The next shot we filmed was mine and Joe’s in the kitchen; this is where the two are drinking a glass of wine together like a couple would. The shot here is a medium close up, as we wanted to emphasize the body language of the company. As the kitchen was a small area, it enabled us to include a lot of it in it which made the framing but easy and effective. We placed the bottle of wine in the middle of us on the oven that was behind, just to show what it was that we were drinking.
Our third shot was the bedroom shot, where Jodie is doing her hair in the mirror and Joe approaches her from behind to give her a hug. At first we tried Jodie perching on the end of the bed looking in a small mirror, but then we realised it would be an awkward looking shot with the bed being in the way. Instead, we decided that we would use the camera as the mirror, and have Jodie looking into it doing her hair. This was a medium close up again, and Joe approached her from behind. This shot was hard to frame because of the height difference, but in the end it came out alright.
The last shot was the kissing shot. We returned to the living room for this as the lighting was really good, and we could use the white wall as a neutral background. We tried to make this shot a close up, so we could emphasize that Joe was a bad cheat. This was difficult to frame because of height differences again so we managed to somewhat choreograph the kiss so that they step into it and Charlotte raises herself on to her tip toes.What worked well about today’s filming is that we managed to get four effective shots out of one relatively small location. They are going to be extremely short in length but we managed to obtain enough shots to get a variety so we have much more to pick from.
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