Construction Post 4: Shooting our Narrative

We all went as a group along with our actor, Jack, on Monday 24th of October to film our narrative footage. As we had already carried out our test shoot we knew that our locations, Finsbury park and Alexandra Palace worked well. However we found that the outfit we planned in the test shoot didnt fit the look we were going for and so we changed it to a new outfit:

Old Narrative Outfit

New Narrative Outfit.

We followed our newly revised shoot board which we had improved after our test shoot, and took our shots in a logical order by location, meaning the shoot went very smoothly and we were able to get all our shots done in time.

Our new shoot board we used for our narrative.

We started the shoot day at Ella's house where we were going to film the opening to our music video- the argument scene. From our test shoot we had found this difficult to film and had problems with continuity as you can see in the gif below.


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Therefore we tried out a few different ways of filming the argument scene, trying one long continuous shout with camera movement and with breaking it into two shots starting from different places with the plan to chose which one worked better when editing our video.

We then traveled together to Southgate station where we filmed the shots on the escalator first. We began by filming these shots without the light attached to our camera as we thought the station was well lit, but after testing it out with the light on we found this looked much better and we decided to use the light for the rest of our shot.

The type of light we were using on our narrative shoot

During the day, although we followed our planned shoot schedule closely and took all the shots we had plan prior to the shoot, we also experimented with some different shots, for example this junction shot which worked well in our final video:

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Overall our narrative shoot day went very smoothly and we managed to shoot high quality footage, I think good organisation of shoot schedules and call sheets were the reason the day was so successful.