Filming: Day Three

For this lesson two more porcelain dolls had arrived, one of them being a large one with a head we can cut off and place on the end of a stick. Which was an idea we had for the music video, linking directly to the lyrics 'We've got heads on sticks'. This was another doll we could drop and it would break in the way we imagined the break to look like. Before this lesson also I took the camera home to film myself standing at the end of my bed to directly link to the lyric 'standing in the shadows at the end of your bed'. It was quite hard to get the right angle in this shot as I'm quite tall and it's hard to fit my entire body in a shot at the end of the bed. I managed to fix this by filming different shots of me standing at the end of the bed using different angles we could cut between however which worked better. At home I also filmed the lights in my bedroom fading in and out that could be used in the montage of lights near to the end of the music video.

During day three of filming we focused on the scene of the main character dressing his victim as a doll. We did this by dressing Catherine in the doll costume and having the main character use a wire to tie her to a chair, we focused on having many panning shots of this scene, to do this we used the crane to use shots panning from the ground upwards or the ceiling downwards. We also used the rule of thirds in a shot of the main character playing with the dolls while the victim is tied to a chair in the other half of the shot. To take the victim out of focus we used depth of field. We also had a mid-shot of the main character rubbing lipstick on the victims face and applying mascara in an aggressive fashion.