Changes to the Music Video

Due to the feedback we recieved from our teacher about using Ashleigh as Alice's mother, we have decided to change the scene to Alice and her friend arguing, we will be changing the setting of the scene to make this clear. Ashleigh will still be in the music video however she will be Alice's friend, as this is more believable. We will continue filming this scene, and hopefully it will work out better and recieve better feedback.

I personally think that Ashleigh will work better as Alice's friend and we can also link this relationship back to when they are sitting next to eachother in the classroom scene as Ashleigh is embarrassed of Alice's behaviour and rolls her eyes at Alice.

Lighting Issues

All of our lighting will be natural lighting as our film is closely linked to realism. Here is some photo evidence to convey how we have experimented with inside light.

Firstly, we looked at how we could control inside lighting within the bathroom as the majority of our film will be located in this room. This image conveys the image with natural lighting with open blinds and main light switched off. This is rather dark and may affect our video.

By turning the light on we will be able to control the lighting more however this may look too artificial. As the light is quite small it gives a larger disadvantage as it gives the chance of more shadows in the room and this is a major problem as we do not want it to be obvious that we have filmed.

Another form of lighting in the bathroom is a small light next to the mirror where Alice will be standing in the film. We fear that the bright light near Alice’s face may give her a false sense of hope which will not work well within out video.

We also experimented with the blinds in the room. Closing them made the room too dark however if we open them we will be affected by outside weather conditions which are beyond our control.

By opening the blinds completely we were able to obtain a main source of light into our video. Whether it is sunny or not the whole room will always contain natural light from outside and will not add extra factors of chances of shadows. It is essential to maintain continuity throughout our video and so lighting is very important. 

5th Filming - Classroom Scene

Upon our fifth time of filming we chose to record the school scene, in which Alice and her teacher have an argument and Alice leaves the room. We were lucky enough to be able to use our own media teacher and the rest of our media class during filming which was very helpful. We made it so that Alice was sitting closest to the teacher, so that she was aware of Alice's actions of misbehaviour and not listening. We decided to have the teacher giving out work back to students and Alice would be the only person in the class that failed, and so an argument begins; Alice rips up her work and the teacher asks her leave, thus making Alice angry and she storms out of the room. This will then lead straight on to Alice leaving school and taking off her badge, she will then walk down the lane back to her house and remove her blazer whilst doing so, to be getting rid of all of the remnants of school from her appearance.

Here are the photographs that were taken during this period of filming:

These are the video's we achieved in this period of filming:

The first shots we filmed were general shots of the classroom and the lesson to allow the viewer to be aware of the environment and the start of the story.

We then decided to film our teacher giving out work to her class, and giving positive feedback which can be seen through her actions. However, when she got to Alice, who's work was not so good, an argument begins: 

We then filmed a shot of the teacher marking Alice's work, so that the viewer will be aware as to why she is so angry when giving Alice her work back:

We also filmed some reaction shots of the pupils in the class towards Alice's behaviour and the tension in the lesson:

 

We filmed the argument between Alice and her teacher in the two point of view shots, which we had planned to do from the initial stages, we also did a side view:

Lastly, we filmed Alice leaving the classroom/being sent out:

We will now edit this scene and ask for feedback from our teachers and peers.