I used a 18-55 mm lens for the majority of the shots with an additional 55-200mm lens for long shots and shots where I needed a pronounced depth of field. The problem I had with the bigger lens was that the camera shook if I didn't use a tripod so if i wanted to film something from far away, such as the burning roses, I had to put the camera on the tripod and use a still shot. However, the smaller lens was more useful for shots where I could move the camera closer to the subject rather then zooming, because of the advantage of being able to use the camera hand held with reduced shake.
A problem we had was that the artists costume didn't keep her warm as it was 5 degrees Celsius. This meant we had to stop regularly for the artist to put her jacket on. This was also a problem because her costume didn't have any shoes.
Another problem we had, in shot of the flowers on fire, was that the flowers wouldn't set alight because they were damp. this meant that a match couldn't be directly dropped onto the flame and we couldn't effectively capture the ignition of the flame on camera.
Thirdly, there wasn't enough light in one of the buildings to successfully record a scene without the use of external lights. this is where I came up with the idea of lighting a match right next to the artists face for her to blow it out, this connoted her feeling non existent to the man the song is about. This provided a good effect because the shot goes from very dark lighting to immediately lighting up her whole face which looks very effective and provided an intended mood for the shot.
the scene where the artist was rowing down the lake on the boat, there was a problem with the level of water in the lake. this meant that it was difficult for her to get into the boat from a platform because the boat was so low. a safety precaution was taken by the use of a life jacket for when she got into the boat (she took it off whilst filming). Another issue was that there were strong winds blowing the boat which could've resulted in an injury if the boat would have been blown into a overhanging tree, for example. We prevented this by giving the artist a long ore so that if the boat drifted she could hold the ore out so that she didn't hit the object she was drifting towards.
Because of the fact we were filming in winter, it started to get dark around 4pm. This meant that we had to stop filming because of the lack of natural light. however, the last scene we filmed, where the artist is running through the field, the lighting was very dark. However in post production i edited the clip so that the dark, grainy shades appeared darker and the white dress she was wearing stood out. this gave a pleasing effect of disorientation which I thought had good connotations.
26/02/15
I filmed with the artist as well as her boyfriend on this day. Her boyfriend played the part of the artist's lover in the video, whom of which the song was about. We filmed shots of my artist walking into the sea as shown in the screen shot below. This was used to connote death and how insignificant mankind are in relation to something as vast as the ocean.
The artist's boyfriend was going to have a brief appearance in the video towards the endwhich would've consisted of a point of view shot of him looking at the artist. However, whilst my artist was in the sea and we were filming this shot, the water got too cold for her and she ran out of the ocean whilst we were still filming, screaming and laughing because of the cold. She ran over to her boyfriend who was holding her towel and he wrapped a towel round her and hugged her, which I caught on film.
This was unplanned, however I thought the nature of the shot I captured was very powerful and expressed the vulnerability of the artist, which I wanted to show. I kept continuity with use of black and white which meant that the artist's facial expressions were blurred. In my opinion, the use of darkened black and white creates audience interpretation to how she is feeling. I also used a "dream effect" which makes the image brighter and more distorted. This was used to express the fact that I wanted the shot of her running out the water and hugging her boyfriend to look like a dream, as this is what she wants to be her reality, however the reality is that she walks into sea and commits suicide, as shown in the last shot of the video which fades out to black.
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