Test Shots

Test Shots

This shot will be used to transition the character from the inner city to a field/park.

Upon making this test shot, we have realised that while the camera is behind the character, we need to have it as close to them as possible. In the test shot, the camera was not close enough to the character and therefore the transition was not seamless. The creases in the shirt also make the transition less smooth and therefore we will need to avoid this when filming.

This test shot demonstrates how the shot within the tube should be framed and performed. The character walks onto the tube and sits down in between the artists.

After reviewing this footage, we realised that to make our artists seem distinctive and outstanding to the rest of the narrative, it would be a good idea for the to sit up and seem abstract, like James on the right and as opposed to Harry on the left.


This test shot is meant to give an example of how a shot will be framed in the field scene, and how the character will be performing. We added an artificial light source and colour corrected the scene to have a yellow/red tint. This is because we want to film this shot at sunset and ideally we will have these lighting aspects when filming this scene.

This test shot tests what a tracking shot will look when we film our piece.

This has shown us that we will require steadying equipment (such as a fig rig) in order to make the shots as not-shaky as possible.

Slow Motion

After deciding that we might want to feature slow motion shots within the field scene, we used a GoPro (which is capable of recording at 100fps in 720p) to film things in slow motion - such as apple being smashed and the chemical reaction between cola and Mentos.

Green Screen

Here are several examples of us using the green screen, playing around with the ultra key tool on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to try and remove the background, allowing us to change the colour and add some form of animation behind. One idea for our final product is to have some form of stop-motion animation of characters dancing. This would allow us to demonstrate our editing abilities, create a very independent look for our video, and help to add to the positive tone that we are trying to create for our audience.

For our official music video there are several improvements that we must make:

• The images in the stop-motion background are all the same size and flow together. In our test shot the images were drawn very roughly to get a general idea of what it would look like, therefore not all the images were the same size, or flowed together very well.
• Ensure that no one appearing on the green screen is wearing green. This is seen in our test as one of the members is wearing an ID card attached to a green lanyard.
• Try to get the green screen as flat as possible to try and remove creases and shadows. This is due to the shadows making it harder to remove the background, as the ultra key will not delete the darker/lighter parts of the green.