Filming: Day One

For our first day of filming we decided to use the production room in the college for a dark atmosphere to film the main character in his setting. We wanted the atmosphere in the room to be dark and smoky so we managed this by closing all the curtains, shining one light on the main character and spraying deodorant into the shot to give it a smoky look. We hadn't received any porcelain dolls for this lesson therefore we had to make the most of what we already had, this meant we were filming the main character walking around the dark room and sitting on a chair in the room, looking paranoid and slightly insane.

We wanted to use this room to film the scene in our music video where there is a light becoming slightly larger in a shot, as if it is protruding from the darkness. We managed to film that with one of the spotlights in the room, using the fader. We filmed the light head on and faded it in, this gives the sense of a natural light expanding in the room. This day we thought of a few ideas for our album cover also and took a few pictures for it, mainly of the main character with a light shining on his face.

In order to look for some more locations Nikki-Leigh came up with the idea of an abandoned mansion which she had seen before near her house. We decided to walk to that abandoned mansion to see if it would suit our music video. We went inside when we got there to find that it was completely empty and derelict. Anything in the house was rubble, it was perfect for our music video, especially one of the rooms we found which could have been the living room, it was empty and the only light in the room would come from a window in the corner which was broken.