Day of Shoot

Day of Shoot

Today I filmed my first attempt at a music video. Charlotte and I spent a few hours dancing around and lip-singing in the fields behind our estate. I'd hoped for a sunnier day but it was a bit overcast which  actually worked white well as the song I chose was Summertime Sadness by Lana Del Rey vs Cedric Gervais so the weather worked for the mise en scene of the video as the characters are wearing summer clothes in a summery location but the weather connotes misery. 

We actually had some camera trouble when filming. We did not start filming until 2 pm today, and this morning I got up early as it dawned on my that maybe I would have to charge the camera. So I turned on the camera and it was on 2/3 bars of battery but I charged it regardless just to be on the safe side. I then unplugged it, put it back in the camera and headed to the location of the shoot. When we got there Charlotte and I set up and began filming and half way through filming the second shot the camera battery died. I have no idea how charging the camera actually reduced the amount of power it had but it did. Charlotte then phoned home and had her camera dropped off. We assumed that would be the problem resolved but no. When Charlotte's camera arrived it was also out of charge. This resulted in us using our phones to shoot the video. As we both have iPhones and both our batteries were below 50% we had a very limited time to film before we ran out of battery. Unfortunately we both ran out of available space on our phones before the battery did. I frantically went through my phone deleting as many photographs and videos from concerts as I could to clear space quickly before I ran out of battery. I did begin to panic but I think I got enough footage to manage. I did plan to make a 1-2 minute video but depending on how the editing goes I may have to shorten it down due to the circumstances I faced.

I am going to attempt to try and edit a rough cut of the video using iMovie as I do not have Adobe Premier Pro at home. I've rarely used iMovie so we'll have to wait and see how it turns out.