Construction Post 2: Days 4-6 of our music video production

Priorites for the second half of our shoot week:

• Graffiti backdrop - industrial like set up with spray paint cans and buckets
• Red lighting - group shots with boys (posing)
• Classy scene - involving a long table red cloth, wine glasses
• Laser setup - mine and Marios' scene
• Scaffolding - Thakshana's and Monica's scenes with their partners
• Monica - re-shoot of her individual shots

Day 4 - Thursday 26th Nov
This day was dedicated to shooting mine and and Mario's scene with lasers. Despite the challenges we faced when shooting my own scene with this setup, we improvised successfully with the help of Emma, our technician. We set up two lamps at separate ends of the stage facing towards mine and Mario's bodies. This allowed both our faces to be lit. However Mario is a lot taller than me so my face became shadowed when I moved backwards. This meant we had to work out an area that I could move in while staying lit.

When I push Mario away I could not move back much as I also had to stay in frame. The end result was very successful.
We had feedback from quite a few people who visited us during our shoot. These were their opinions:
"It looks much better this time, the lasers stand out a lot more" - this was also due to us blurring out the background to largen the size of the laser lights on screen.
"Your acting with Mario doesn't look awkward despite the lack of space you can move around in" - this was due to the narrow areas of white light

"You got rid of the shadows!" - this was due to successful positioning of the floor lamps

Day 5 - Friday 27th Nov
We shot our group shots in front of the scaffolding on day 5. This involved shots of us just posing quite still trying to look cool. We also shot us pretending to spray paint D4MES onto the backdrop to add to the street vibe.
We also shot all of Thakshana's individual shots in front of the same backdrop.
We also shot Monica and Will's scene as he was available to kindly come after school. This allowed us to free up our Saturday schedule as it was already quite packed due to all the boys only being collectively free on Saturday to film the mass group shots.

Day 6 - Saturday 28th Nov
Saturday involved shooting the dinner table scene and mass group shots with the boys.
Initially for the dinner table scene, all four guys were serving and waiting on us girls sat at the table but we decided that there was too much going on and four waiters were unnecessary. In the end we decided to coast two waiters. We managed to get varied shots of this scene, one being a close-up of champagne being poured into a glass with me in the background which I thought was quite cool as we planned to slow mo some of these shots for effect.

For our mass group shots we posed with each of our partners. This included cute poses, confident cool poses and loving poses to create that 'SQUAADD' image.

We also shot Thakshana and Aaron's scene which was quite long as her verse was long. They had a lot of screen time so we needed to fill that screen time up making sure it wasn't boring or dragging on for too long. Thus we decided that they could use the large space available and Aaron could walk towards Thakshana backing her up against the scaffolding.