Test Shoot

Here is the test shoot that we shot at school. Unfortunately we were unable to get Josh and Gracie for the video as they were in London, however myself and Ksenia stepped in to fill as much of the acting role as possible. Additionally, we used a video from Josh's YouTube channel to inter cut with what we shot as we were unable to get him. We shot with Romany in the studio which went according to plan as we knew we wanted her to be our singer as she fits the image perfectly.

When watching the video back, I have noticed that the opening shot of the couple, and many other couple shots look like home videos which is not the look we want to go for. Therefore, when shooting the real film, I think we will open with a long shot to establish the couple and so an audience will know that this is a fictional piece. Additionally, an idea struck that the singer should maybe be Gracie as usually the lead in a music video narrative is also the singer, this also calls for less rehearsal time and organisation than using a different singer. Close ups can also be used to establish the couple, especially extreme close ups and the use of lighting which will exclaim clearly that it is not a home video.

Another problem with the video is the speed. Some of the shots don't flow as the song is very slow and beautiful, so the shots of the couple are as well as the singer. However, the shots of Josh dancing were much faster and didn't look right and didn't flow with the video as well as we had hoped. We are therefore going to ask Josh to slow down his dance, especially the beginning and maybe incorporate a bit of slow motion in post production however this is not finalised yet.

Finally, the couple sections got a little boring after a while as it was quite repetitive, therefore, we need to think of other interesting things couples could be doing other than just sitting around smiling which gets tedious.