Account of filming "Famous"

Despite the idea that this was all fine and dandy as well as the fact that we did obtain some good shots, we also encountered a few issues during the filming process. 

We first filmed on Friday 9th December and due to the fact that we needed a large space in which to film these auditions, which this day focussed on as our video would dwell on them for the greatest length throughout the video, we managed to secure use of the school hall. I initially created an order in which the auditions would be filmed in, taking into consideration that people would need time to get changed between acts - some were in two or three different acts. However, as soon as filming began this order "went out the window" as various people needed to leave a certain times, therefore the order needed to be tweaked so they could get done what was needed. People were also arriving at different times so the idea of organisation also "went out the window" and this meant that we didn't start filming until about 40 minutes after we arrived in the hall.

On this day we only got half of the filming done that we wanted to do, and so we had to set another date in which to finish off the bits we hadn't done and even now we are still lacking some bits of footage.

The next date we set to do the remainder of the filming was Thursday 15th december. On this day we filmed four aspects of our music video: The poses, stop motion, the cardboard flip and, as we found it highly comica,l the Cha Cha slide. All of our act were highly co-operative once we took the basketballs away... we were filming in the school gym, as the hall was in use, and they were just laying around so naturally the acts decided to try and have a game. First we did the poses, in which we got both the acts and the judges to do them, but it did take them a while to get into it and let loose. We then did the cardboard flip, which basically consists of  in which we stood on a piece of gym equipment to do it from a high angle. This shot was initially supposed be be not just a high angle shot but and aerial shot, well as shot fom directly above it. It was difficult to put together as we found that due to the different heights of people and the conidtion of some of the bits of cardboard, one of which had broken in half. After doing this the camera remained on this high piece of equipment and we filmed the stop motion in which the acts were all located. The idea was to start with all of the acts and then in each image one person disappear so we would be left with the band who would make their way towards the camera and put on sunglasses on the way. From this we got what we wanted. We then got the acts to do the Cha Cha slide which was highly amusing, particularly when they forgot which way they were going. For this the camera still stayed in the same place which I believe was due to the heights of people, couldn't get everyone in for all of it. However, the acts did as they were told and it was far more organised than the last filming attempt.

We still need to film the judges into the hall and re film the intro of our video, due to lighting issues. We also need to do the judges generally as we do not have all of the shots that we need.

Despite the stressful nature of this filming process we did gain some absoloutely hilarious footage...

... which largely upholds the ideals of comical effect throughout our video, especially as we intend to increase its speed. We are all therefore truly grateful to everyone who helped us with the filming and to all of our acts who despite not being able to sit still gave us some great footage.