Test shots.

In preparation for filming my music video, I went out with my friend Chloe (who is going to be the artist in my music video) and took some test shots to see which ideas worked and which ones didn't. I think this was an important part of the process for creating my video as this allowed me to play around with shots and work out my ideas.



I think this shot will work well for the beginning of my video, although I think this shot is a little too dark and looks gloomy. This could work for my video to represent the artist's attitudes and emotions as she is in a dark place at the beginning of the video and feels sad about not fitting in with people. When filming this scene, I will video a dark sky on the night and also film in a morning to get a brighter setting. I think that filming both of these will be a good idea because I will be able to use the darker one at the beginning of my video, and end it on the brighter shot which illustrates how the artist has become happy with herself.



One thing that I forgot about when filming these shots was that I had to film them all either portrait or landscape so that it wasn't mixed, looked professional and so that the shots flowed seamlessly. I think this was a major thing that I learned from doing this as this wouldn't be good if I filmed the full video and then ended up realising after editing the full video. I really like this shot because it is simple yet effective in the way that the artist looks alone; portraying the lyrics of the song.




Although I think these shots look good and represent how people ignore the artist and simply walk past her and don't notice her, I found out that having the artist in the video sit on a bench was something that a lot of people use and so is now not recommended. I think that finding this out early is definitely a good thing for me because now when I start filming, I know that the footage I get is likely to be original and not look bad.

For these shots, I simply put them on YouTube and embedded them onto here without adding music because I know that I will have to reshoot them properly, and then will add the music at a later date so that it looks better.