Friday, 22 January 2010

Weather Conditions

A problem which I have had concerns the filming of my video. Having had a lot of snow over the Christmas holiday and into January, I have not been able to film anything for my video yet since I did not want to film in these conditions. The snow has completely cleared now, so I am waiting for a nice, bright, dry day to go out and film my video. This will have to be on a weekend to allow time to get to and from the location. I know I am starting to get a bit behind with my work now, as my filming should already have been done, so I am going to do it as soon as possible.

Shot List

I will now go through my storyboard, assessing each shot to make sure everything works ready for filming. I have already written the shot types and camera movements on my storyboard, but here I will do this in much more detail. I have also made some alterations to some of shots and changed some of them around.

Shot 1 - establishing shot of the location, a peaceful, secluded beach. The shot will feature the beach, with the sea in the background. It will hopefully be a bright day, blue sky with some clouds.

Shot 2 - a long shot looking along the beach.

Shot 3 - a shot of birds flying in the sky.

Shot 4 - another wildlife shot, birds on rocks or something else.

Shot 5 - extreme long shot along the beach, where a figure is now visible but not recognisable creating a sense of mystery.

Shot 6 - a wildlife shot, birds floating in the sea or something else.

Shot 7 - a long shot of the figure, from a different angle.

Shot 8 - forwards tracking in a long shot, following the figure who is now walking along the beach.

Shot 9 - sideways tracking shot of the figure in a medium long shot.

Shot 10 - forwards tracking shot again following the person in a medium long shot.

Shot 11 - sideways tracking shot again now with the person in a medium close up.

Shot 12 - backwards tracking shot, seeing the person clearly for the first time, in a medium shot.

Shot 13 - backwards tracking shot in a close up as the singing begins.

Shot 14 - backwards tracking shot now in a long shot of the person.

Shot 15 - camera stops moving and stays stationary, the person moves towards it until in a medium shot.

Shot 16 - wildlife shot, birds flying.

Shot 17 - location shot of beach, pan round to see performer in a long shot.

Shot 18 - performer in medium shot, singing.

Storyboard

This is my hand drawn storyboard of the first sequence of my video which is the first minute of the song, complete with duration of shots and shot type and camera movement written below each frame.