Shooting Some House Scenes

Today we filmed some scenes at my parners house. We agreed that the best thing to do was to film each line of the song in different locations and then pick out the best ones that we would use. From previous experience we know that you can never have enough shots and its possibly better to over film as you don't know what you could find when your editing.

Weather

We set out today to film some shots at the town park, but when we arrived the weather took a turn for the worst and haulted our filming with some rain showers. This was so agrivating and disappointing but it was not suitable to film, this taught us to watch the weather forecast more often!

Mirror and Instrument shot

As the drama studio was free today and we had our filming equipment to hand we decided to attempt to film a few shots. We tried to film as many different shots as we could within the space of time we had, using different angles and shot distances, however it was a lengthly process with the need to keep checking over each one, on top of that the light angles needed to be changed every so often to ensure that there were no shadows.

We thought it may have been a good idea to use a mirror, so we hunted around for one and upon finding one, we layed it on the floor and began to set up the shot, I got into position ready to play the guitar while my partner layed on the floor trying to get the camera out of the shot but with me in the shot. We film it but after reviewing it, it didn't seem to have the effect we wanted it to so we filmed over it.

Location Hunting

Today was the day to find a good location to do some filming. We thought for a while where we could go and we decided about a local place called "Gibberd Garden". It is supposed to be a beautiful area with great scenery, we thought this would be perfect.

During our filming time we took a trip down there, about 10 minutes drive away, only to find that it was closed for the winter.

We had to rethink our strategy and with time against us we thought we would create something with the best we had which was our local town park, it had some aspects which could be highlighted as looking quite nice.

Album cover design

Today would took an insight into planning our album covers. I decided I would like a random shot and that I want to include the actress and the guitar. I want to image to represent the randomness of Kate Nash's personality and include a good dress style. I not sure if i would like to stick with this album cover and im open minded and may use innovation on the day to capture a better image.

Plannning our story to the lyrics

Today we printed off the lyrics of the song and annotated each line to guide us into our filming stages.

The song is around 3 minutes long and the pace is quite slow, with this is mind there are alot of lyrics and it will take some time to get through them all, by doing this we felt that we would have a better chance of filling up the song with good quality filming and we would not be struggling to "fill in the gaps".

Further Research

We looked on the internet today for some pictures of Kate Nash and looked at how she represented herself. We studied her different poses and how she looks, did she look cocky or shy? We also looked at the clothes she wore and we impression these gave. From her songs such as Foundations, Mouthwash and Nicest thing, it can be said that she is quite down to earth.





After searching the internet would put together a page of pictures to annotate.

We took a lot from these pictures, mostly from our predictions that came to light. Pictures with her and guitar started giving us ideas for our Album covers and her dress sense and her attitude all seem quite random but down to earth. Most of her shops do not appear to have been air brushed, they are just stand alone natural poses that display her character as being happy and lively.