Filming Progress #4

I have now completed the filming of all my extra shots, I now feel as if I have completed filming, but there may be a few extra shots I need. Many of these shots were the abstract scenes, such as the card lit on fire. Therefore I did not need any help for these shots. For most shots I created them independently at home, as people did not appear in them. I created small set pieces, such as the green cloth with a black background, where I would roll dice into. There was a shot where I did need the help of the music videos protagonist, where I had him lip-syncing the song.

Some of the shots I had planned, did not go as expected. For example the shot where I lit a playing card on fire. Whilst filming this shot I found out that playing cards are not very flammable, which lead me to printing of a playing card onto cartridge paper to burn instead. Even the paper was less flammable than I anticipated, which will most likely lead to me speeding the clip up during the editing process. Another shot I encountered issues with was the shot of playing cards falling from the sky. For this shot I had set up the camera outside in my garden facing the sky, with my plan being to throw a deck of cards out my window on the second floor. When I threw the cards out of the window, they scattered much farther than I envisaged, not looking very good on camera. It did mean that many of these playing cards went across the fence into my neighbor's garden.