filming and editing for lady sovereign

we refilmed the lead female role for Lady Sovereign as we felt we needed a range of different locations and shots as our previous shoot was limited, we used a different actress this time as we needed to get our shoot done and we needed to use someone who could film with us at the time, as it turned out our new actress did a very good job fitting the role of Lady Soveriegn. We filmed in similar locations that would fit the 'urban' themes of the song itself.

PICS OF FILMING

We then went and uploaded all of our footage onto final cut and will be editing it soon so we can get closer to completing our music video and meeting the set deadline.

filming and editing main lead footage

We went on two shoots filming the section that the lead singer of 'The Ordinary Boys' covered in the song, we also filmed parts of the chorus so we could cut away from band performance scenes. We filmed in a few different urban locations, such as a park, a bridge and down an alleyway. This would give us a few different options when we went to edit on final cut.

ADD IMAGES OF FILMING

When we went to edit on final cut we were keen to use fast cut editing to match the fast upbeat tempo of the song, but it was still important to keep the video flowing whilst using fast cutting. It was also important to make sure that the video would flow between the lead male and female parts and that there wasn't a big jump in both performance and location between the two.

Here are some photos of us editing our footage:

Day 2 of Filming

Yesterday we filmed the main bulk of our lead male role in the song 'Nine 2 Five' by The Ordinary Boys. Our actor was playing the role of the lead singer of the ordinary boys, and we filmed all of our footage in a local park using various different shots and locations within the park.

We are still planning to film more of the lead male role in different locations (e.g car park, urban locations) and we also need to re-film some parts of Lady Sovereign's role and band performance. The next step will be uploading the footage we filmed yesterday onto final cut and then to begin fitting it to the track.

editing lady sovereign footage

After we had finished filming all of Lady Sovereign's involvement in the music video we set about editing our footage on Final Cut Express, we chose to use this piece of software over I Movie as it is a more professional piece of software and there are more different effects and editing options. Here are some screen shots of us editing our work:

Whilst we were editing we discovered the difficulties of matching the lip-syncing to the music with a rap artist, as the pace that Lady Sovereign was rapping at was sometimes quicker than that of our actor. We also realised that we would have to re-film some parts of Lady Sovereign's scene to make the video flow better and to also re-film any shots that did not quite go according to plan. We also need to move onto filming our lead male role and band performance scenes

Possible Locations 1

Asides from the locations we have already used in our Lady Sovereign scene, here are some other places we were looking to use in our music video for both the lead male role and band performance scenes. We have stuck to the same basic idea of following the urban genre that the song portrays by using urban locations.

Here are some images of possible location shots:

Day 1 of Filming

In our first day of filming we shot the majority of Lady Sovereign's involvement in the song, we did all of her parts down and alleyway and in a park to emphasise the urban genre that the artist is related with.

We started off filming down an alleyway using a range of different camera angles and shots whilst Lady Sovereign was rapping, so we could cut and edit them during editing to give a flow to the footage in the music video that matched the fast tempo of the lyrics in the song. We then continued our filming in a park where we shot some of our footage against a brick wall with a tripod, we could then use this shot as the base of Lady Sovereign's involvement in the music video and cut away to different angles and shots in different locations. It could be seen that this was influenced by Azealia Bank's music video to the song '212' as it is shot in a similar way.

We may go back and re-film some of the footage as it did not come out quite as I would have like it to and also film a few other ideas to give ourselves more of a range of shots to play with in editing.

Here are some photos from our 1st day of filming our music video: