Reflection of Day 3 filming - Lady Pearl

 

 

Filming for the Green Screen 

 

So in our story board we came up with quite a few areas that could potentially include Green Screen, and so today was the day that we'd put all of our talk into practice! 

The main focuses in our Green Screen:

1) Close up Shots of Fleek E for Synergy

-We wanted extreme close up shots for of her eyebrows, eyes, lips and eyelashes as we all incorporated these in our individual digipaks 

2) Single shots Of Fleek E doing the dance 

- The origin of the same way dance! We want to show the artist brushing off the haters all by herself, hopefully if the shot is repeated enough throughout the music video, all of Fleek E's fans/followers and the general public will catch on with the dance!

3) Emeka - Our dancer 

Now we decided to encorperate a very talented friend of ours to show of his skills in our music video, and he sure delivered exactly what we thought he would! THANK YOU EMEKA! :) (even though you'll never read this blog)

4) The Brusher (Fleek E) vs the Brushee (Emeka)

Michella and creative intelligence came up with the idea of filming Emeka dance and eventually editing him down in size so that he can land on Fleek E (the BrushER)'s shoulder, and then as Fleek E does the movement where she brushes off the haters, Emeka (the BrushEE) as the supposed 'hater' would then tumble off of her shoulder and we would then see his body floating through the air

5) Group of boys dancing/turning up in the back ground

I thought it would be smart to film group 7 as they agreed to being in it anyway! But to film them behind her as a big group of guys because I'm not sure if we will still be able to shoot the same crowd of people in the dance studio as many drama an dance groups were also rehearsing. 

This was done in 2 takes! Great job guys, many thanks! 

6) Buy em in two's

We filmed Mel and Emeka, two brilliant dancers together cutting shapes so that we could have a variety of dance shots. These shots also came in very handy for a very brief line in verse two were Fleek E says "Buy em in two's" -we plan on cutting to the shot of the two of them dancing :)

After all the green screen stuff had been done, we moved to the Angel Compound: 

Here we had 3 dancers dressed in all black whilst Fleek E was centre of attention in all white. We initially wanted more than 3 people but we managed to work with what we had and we placed them in a diamond formation so it looked almost intentional! Also, to be fair, Fleek E does say in the first verse "I've got a tight circle" - meaning she has a small group of friends, and we demonstrated exactly that! We filmed three base tracks here and also managed to get a lot of shots were Fleek E and we dancers were all moving in sync - as they should be! The colour contrasts in this shot are very nice and not like the others we've filmed as it is in the evening time so it adds a cooler vibe to it B)

All shots in Angel compound panned around the dancers and followed their movements skilfully without moving too much on every line