Music Video Filming Blog 2

 In my last blog, I detailed the process and dilemmas of the longest scene in the music video: the climax scene.  I described it in such detail because it was the defining shot of the music video.  However, I did not shed any light on most of the other shots I used.  The other scenes we used were broken into three categories.  They were establishing shots, pre-climax scenes, and post-climax scenes.

The establishing shots were short scenes mostly of the road where the climax scene happened.  Multiple establishing shots were taken of the road.  However, only one was used in the final product.  That shot was the pan down from the sky to the empty road.  The purpose of the shot was to establish the setting so the watcher doesn't get confused by the sudden change of setting from the front door to the road.  The shot was a pan down from the sky to the empty road.  The other establishing shots were similar but had no place in the final product.  Filming the establishing shot was the easiest part because it didn't require any teamwork, movement, or acting.

Pre-climax scenes are the scenes that were shot with the intention of putting them before the climax scene in the video.  Few pre-climax scenes were shot and the only one that appeared in the music video was the shot of me walking out of the front door of the house with the dog and dog leash.  filming the shot was pretty easy because it was so short and the dog was cooperative.

Post-climax scenes, as the name suggests, were filmed with the intention of appearing after the climax scene in the music video.  There were two pairs of post-climax scenes that got filmed.  All of them were used.  The first pair was the shot of me walking the dog down the road with a happy expression on my face and the shot of me walking down the street alone, looking sad.  This wasn't hard to film but they were hard to figure out the acting for.  The other pair consisted of the two bench scenes, one with the dog and one without.  They were the second hardest to film because it was hard to get the dog to sit on the bench and interact with me but compared to the climax scene, they were easy.