These are pictures from our filming in Uckfield on Sunday 20th March. We were really pleased with the group dancing shots that we filmed. We filmed one particular dance (shown above) by the river from many different angles, for example the reflection of them in the stream in front of them, directly in front of them and from behind. Using fast editing we want to put these all together to create an amazing effect.
Here Hannah is using the hand held camera effect to film Lucy singing as Florence by the lake. We held the camera in line with Lucy's eyes to create the eye line match so that Lucy is really connecting with the audience as she sings into the camera.
Here we used the hand held camera again to capture the dancing scene from below.
The Lake was really good for filming a shot of the reflection of them dancing.
Again we used the hand held camera to get right above Lucy as she rolled around in the leaves. We were really pleased with how this particular shot turned out as it gave our video a different angle than just her sitting up horizontally singing.
We first started our filming on the 6th February 2011 in Friston Forest in Seaford. We were a bit worried on the drive down to the location, as the weather was quite drizzly and therefore we may have had to postpone our filming. However, once we had parked and walked to where we were wanting to film, the rain had stopped although it was incredibly cold and the lighting was quite flat. We overcame this by adjusting the contrast on the camera. The filming went well although it was quite disappointing as only 2 out of the 6 people that said they could come turned up. We overcame this by using the time to film shots that showed the location and shots that involved only our main character.
We tried to incorporate different shot types, for example the picture above and below shows some of the close ups that we used. We also used mid to long shots and re shot some shots twice in different angles and positions so that when editing we can make it look as interesting as possible.
These pictures show the filming that we completed in a forest in Uckfield on Sunday 20th March. Luckily everyone turned up this time, so we could incorporate the group dancing shots that are similar to many of Florence and the Machine's music videos. The mise en scene shows everyone wearing black like we planned, as it connotes death, and therefore fits in with the title of 'My Boy Builds Coffins'. We decided to use a V shaped formation with our main character at the front of the group and the dancers behind her. Again, we filmed this shot from different angles, including one where we were lying in the grass and filming them from below.
One of the lines in the song goes "...Kings and Queens all knock at his door, beggars and liars, gypsies and thieves, they all come to him 'cause he's so eager to please..." We therefore decided it would be a good idea to make Lucy who is playing Florence, a crown made of natural things from the wood such as twigs and bracken.
This picture shows one of the scenes where we just got Lucy to mime the whole song to the camera. We got her to do this in all different parts of the wood and while she was doing different things, such as the picture below where she is lying in the leaves. We thought this was a good idea as we could then cut all of the different miming shots and put them together to make our video more interesting.
Later on that evening, I took the camera and set it up so that it could film the sun setting. It was very important that the camera was not moved at all when filming as then the effect would look good when we speed it up on the computer when editing. I sat in the field for about 45mins and managed to get the sun going down, until the battery ran out. Luckily, the battery ran out quite near the end of the sunset and therefore the change in the sun in that 45 mins will be very clear when we change the speed when editing. We want to use this piece of filming at the beginning on the film, reversed to show the sun coming up, and at the end of the film, to show the sun setting. This therefore helps with our idea about showing the 'death' of a day. We all personally contributed by taking it in turns with filming on the camera, for example I filmed the mid shot of Lucy rolling around in the leaves and after Hannah also filmed a hand held piece of Lucy singing by the lake. Emma enjoyed filming some of the dancing scenes. We all also contributed by taking it in turns to show communication on set, for example with use of the clapper board and making sure that the camera and the actors were fully ready for beginning to film.
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