Powder Paint Fight: Location Research

We had to brainstorm a wide range of locations, as obviosuly we have a huge logistical dillemma in the fact that we are going to make a huge mess, so will have to choose an appropriate place.

We originally thought of places such as abandoned houses/warehouses, the woods or a field, purely because we wouldn't have to worry about the powder making a mess. The problem of this was actually finding a place like this that would fit the conventions. We were left locationless, with 15kg of powder paint and were a little bit disheartened.

 But then we remembered an intimate location under neath our local bridge. It has huge arches which you can walk under, and one particular one was very desolate and disused - perfect! The space was big enough to fit everyone in.

We realised we will definitely need some form of lighting, as the location wasn't fabulously lit even in broad daylight, so this was something we had to consider when confirming the location.

Recreating the Adele Close-up: Planning & Preparation

We have decided to recreate the Adele, 'Chasing Pavements' shot in order to gain further experience in terms of conventions of music videos. 

We have had to consider aspects such as location, camera angles, lighting, sound and props/costuming.

LOCATION:
We have found a suitable tree within our school grounds which is very similar to the tree in the music video. It went through vigourous testing processes but passed with flying colours; we are very happy with our choice.

CAMERA ANGLES:
Although the shot is primarily a close-up, there is also a slight high angle point of view, which causes Adele to look up into the camera lens. In order to achieve this, Georgia will be playing Adele, who is quite short whilst I film as I am quite a bit taller than her! We will do a test shot in order to establish the correct angle too.

LIGHTING:
In the music video, the light is very much on Adele who is in the foreground, with it being much darker in the backgrounnd to create a clearer contrast. To achieve this ourselves, we will use the LED light on Georgia's face and darken the background mostly in editing.

SOUND:
Georgia will have to mouth the words whilst we play the track in the background, then we can overlay a clearer HQ track during editing so as to avoid any background noise (e.g wind) which would make our shot look less proffesional

PROPS/COSTUMING:
We don't really need to aquire any props apart from an outdoors jacket, which is the only part of her costume we can see. Alongside this, we want to recreate the make up Adele wears during the video, which is mostly natural with some heavier eye make-up.