Evaluation of the shoot day

8:45 - 9:50am

As soon as we arrived at the studio, we dashed off to get everything ready for the shoot. 

I helped Sophia to start putting on her costume while Sophie Ritter helped her with make up right from the start because we knew that it will take awhile. To save time, I went to help set up the bedroom set when Sophie Ritter was busy doing make up for Sophia. Meanwhile, Vlad was setting up the camera and adjusting the lighting for the room. 

THis is how the set looks like:

It was great set and we were all thrilled by the achievement as it was better than what we have expected. We were ready for the next step- Filming !!!

I took the role of a director during the shoot. Since Sophia was the singer 'Dummy' in the music video, I feel that it was my responsibility to ensure that Sophia finds herself the character 'Dummy' and how she was going to portray, what does she want the audience/her fans to feel or think? I kept referring back to Star Image (innoncent, yet dark and quirky). So I constantly reminded Sophia that she is innocent, pure but dark at the same time. The reason why she is dark is because she had a painful past where she killed her lover and that she feels guilty. She is mentally disturbed.

In order to make her feel comfortable in front of the camera, Sophie and I asked her to dance and do whatever the music made her feel. The first take was good and she was beginning to warmed up. So I  told her to use her hands and legs more and be more snakelike. On the second take, she was beginning to feel more confident and she took in my advice very well as she was beginning to have disturbed, manipulative character as she was beginning to have the images in her head. With Sophie and my help in hands choreography, she was beginning to understand the character and it became natural for her. She became 'Dummy'. That was what we were aiming for.

Half of our day had gone so quickly, but we have finished the shooting shots of her present day on the bed, close up shots of her, pull focus shots and tracking shots. Our next aim was to shoot her past with her lover(Walter) after lunch at the Radnor’s bathroom.

However, we changed our plan, as we were happy with the marvelous set we had so we decided to shoot on the same set inside. Walter was very professional as he did what he was told and it was easy to work with him.

Since this was the only day we would be shooting, so we really wanted have our best shots for editing, so we took many different shots such, tracking, bird eye view, etc for the same shots, so we stayed longer at the studio. 

We decided not to have shots of cards in the water tank because we realized that what we have so far were so good that we might ruin them if we put in shots of cards which were no longer relevant to our video. . This time, my role was working with the camera and how to use it and I also did playback, During this process, I realized that it is important to use media terminology such, standby, action, playback,etc.

We finally finished at 4.45pm with the shot of broken wine glass (slow motion), it was our best shot ever and we are so proud of it. I was our best shot because we used a special effect and we used to shoot it with two cameras.

We were happy with our work as we worked efficiently.