Filming Day 4

Alley Pally!

Last week we filmed the scenes of myself singing the song at Ally Pally (Alexandra Palace). We were right on top of the hill so the view was amazing and we got some good shots of London all lit up.

We had to do to get permission by the officials at Alley Palley to film on their grounds to prove we were students and sign a form. After this we started filming myself against the wind singing the song all the way through. From this shot we got the skyline and the view. We used the rule of thirds and composed her in the correct position. We also filmed long shot, mid shot and close up of her singing.

After this we set it up along a walkway and had her singing and walking towards us. Seeing as it was 5 o clock at night and was dark we had a big light that was quite bright and shone it on her. This looked a bit weird in some shots as you could see a big circle where the light was but in other shots, such as when I was standing by an arch way singing, it looked good as it mainly focused on just myself, possibly implying her lonliness.

After Ally Pally we went back to my house and filmed the "Polaroid" pictures that Emmak had made. Seeing as I didn't have any pictures of myself and Alex in Polaroids, Emmak made them by cutting out pictures of them and sticking them on card backgrounds to make them look like the typical Polaroid picture. She also did some green screen's of this to see if it will work on iMovie. This inspiration and use of intertextuality has come from the music video "Airplanes - BoB" when the camera pans across all the Polaroid pictures and then one of them starts moving. We would like to try and incorporate this into our music video, but if it doesn't work, as we weren't too sure, we filmed it with the park bench shot as well so we can zoom into it and the next scene will happen.



We also created a stop motion effect on paper of a printed cupid shooting an arrow and breaking, hence broken arrow. We filmed this in 8 different shots and will create a stop motion of it for our music video. We will also do the picture in picture effect and have her in the background singing the lyrics. We also found on my mantelpiece L O V E letters. We also thought to have them jumbled up, and to move them little by little to create a stop motion of them rearrange themselves and we can also play this backwards so they split up. This idea has come from the Kate Nash - Foundations video.