(I had a problem uploading the videos onto the blog and kept getting "errors", so I took four screenshots of each shot I analysed.)
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Although... these shots I can take bits from because either they're not good quality in some places, lighting change from the background (outside) and light near the lead singer, the singer not in complete frame etc.
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Here I have a shot down the subway showing the lead singer leaning against the wall on her phone. I do like how I've placed the camera (angles) but it's the lighting which is the problem, and if I used this shot, it might let me drop a few marks because of the blue light. If I do want this shot badly I could always try and place a filter over the blue lighted areas of outside.
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This is one of the many shots of the same location with the lead singer, Christina. This was taken in town in front of the road into town and the car park, where I thought it'll be good with people walking around as well. Although, I do like the look of shots i.e.; the out-focused background, and everything being shown in the background, she is out of frame. I do want to use these shots though, especially for the chorus parts. There is nothing much I can do apart from to re-film them, but it depends if I have enough time to do it again, also taking into consideration of the possible continuity errors I can make, I don't know whether it's worth risking. As well as a few lip-syncing errors and breaks of laughter (shown in the fourth screenshot) after a verse/a chorus, it needed to be taken (the shot of the singer in the location) many times.
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Finally here is shot at the car park where the lead singer is shown to pace down the alleyway towards the back of town, in the dark. I do like this shaky camera shot (this shot was more of a test to see if it would work) although it cuts to the blue lighting from outside which doesn't look right with the lights inside the car park. I could fix this with filters in the editing process, but it's difficult when I can easily break the 180 degree rule with my movement around the lead singer, because she could be facing one way and when it cuts back to the same shot she can face another way. I could use bits of this but I wouldn't use the second half of the video, due to out-focus of the camera, blue lighting, lip-syncing being out from the song being played, and it just doesn't look right to me.
- These shots are based in an urban setting to represent their ordinary life of the singer's generation. I chose the local town centre for shooting because the song isn't trying to show its set in a glamourous/big city i.e.; London, but it's tryingt o show the grundgy average town where an average person will live near.
