Tuesday 3 April 2012

Props

As well as the necessary equipment for filming, we had to ensure we had the probs for each filming session as many of these were recurring and therefore needed every time.

1. Vodka Bottle
In several shots, Ellie is shown with a vodka bottle. To ensure consistancy we therefore had to use the same brand of bottle and judge the amount of liquid in the bottle on how much she has drunk through the video, for example, following the drinking/ smoking scenes there had to be less in the bottle.


2. The lighter
We used the lighter in a few scenes and had to buy it especially for the video as none of us owned one. It was therefore important to remember as we did not have a back up lighter and needed the same one for consistancy.


3. iPhone
The phone was used twice and therefore we had to use the same one as the colour, case and background etc had to be the same for consistancy.



In our rough cut we had also used the iPhone in an earlier scene but have replaced this now, however, this was another situation when we needed an identical iPhone.
4. Picture
The image of Ellie and Harry was seen twice, once on her wall and then again when she burns it. We had to print of several copies of the picture in order to ensure the size was the same and also as back-ups incase the burning did not go as planned (it took 3 attempts to burn it as we planned, with Harry's face going first).

CLOTHING
3. The coat
The coat was Sarah Brushett's and therefore only available when Sarah was involved in the filming. She was mostly always there but we had to arrange to get it if not (as I explained in one post about filming) as the coat is one of the most obvious features of the main characters outfit.

6. Doc Marten boots
These belonged to our friend Emily who was not involved in our music video and therefore one of our group members would text her the day before filming to ask if she could bring them in. Emily was happy to lend them but if she could not bring them into school one of us would pick them up from her house, which is 2 minutes from our school.

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