Filming Day 7 - Deluxe 142 Re-Filming - Luke

26/1/13

After receiving feedback and deciding upon what action we wanted to take (can be seen here), we returned to Deluxe 142 to film some of the new ideas we came up with for our video. When we arrived my dad showed us a range of different recording studios before we decided on the main one we were going to use. The one we eventually picked was chosen because of the separate recording booth and the large recording desk, which we thought would give our video some professionalism.

The first shot we filmed in the recording studio was of Josh singing. We played the song through James' phone so that Josh could get the lip sync perfectly in time. We filmed him singing the song three times from three different angles so that we had a variety of footage to use for the parallel cuts between the chase scene and Josh in the recording studio.

Next we filmed the section where Dan takes the disc and leaves the studio, before giving Josh the signal that the song had started recording. We filmed this section from a variety of different angles and positions. Upon looking back at the footage we found that these shots look very good and the new re-filmed introduction will fit in well with our music video.

After filming the intro we immediately started to plan and film our shots for the end of the video, which features Dan being chased through the door into the studio and falling back on the couch. The shot of Dan falling back on the couch proved extremely hard to get right, as many times the fall looked un-natural and faked. In total we took around seven takes to get it right. James then filmed the POV shots of Dan falling back on the sofa and waking up from his dream, completing the filming in the recording studio.

The last footage that we needed to record was back in the cinema. We needed to re-film one of the shots, which included me standing in the corner of the shot turning on the lights, something we had not noticed on the first time of filming. This time we made sure that this would not be repeated and instead of me standing at the light switch waiting to turn them off, we got a remote that would turn them off with the simple push of a button, meaning that there was no risk of me or anyone else being in shot. We are happy we the footage that we re-filmed for the beginning and end of our video, and are now slightly happier with the idea of using performance within our video.