Week beginning 10th Oct

During our lesson on Tuesday we decided to film all three of use lip syncing to the whole song this was once again done using green screen. We decided to lip sync to the whole song as from previous practice from shooting in Knebworth is that you often run out of shots. Therefore if we had us lip syncing to the whole song we should be guaranteed to have a shot to fill an empty space. Once again we all wore black or white to make it simple.
This is an image of the dressing table we used;

After we had finished school we decided to go back to Millie’s to film more shots of her and Maya, we were able to film shots 1-7. We found it difficult to film shots 1 and 2 as this was of Maya sitting in front of the dressing table and then Millie in the same position. As we want to make a smooth transition between the two we had to be sure that they were positioned exactly the same. Also as Maya is only 9 she seemed to get bored and agitated as we had to keep re-filming therefore we had to try and keep her entertained as well.
This is a picture from our story body of the eye shot;

We found it particularly hard to zoom in on Millie’s eye as the camera kept becoming fuzzy and went out of focus as it was hard to keep steady. We wanted to use a transition to merge Millie’s eye into Maya’s and the zoom out on Maya’s. We originally planned to do this the other way round although we believe it looked better starting off zooming in on Millie’s eye as it is like she looking back and fits with the lyrics better. During editing we tried out many different transitions between Millie and Maya’s eyes eventually we decided on a cross dissolve as this was the best option as it stayed smooth.