We realised that we were going to need to stick to a low lit, natural style of lighting to try and define the mood of the song that is shown in the video. We also want to replicate the location and costume seen in the video and to do this, we'll need to look at the less focused on sections of the frame. Testing out how best to recreate the close up, panning shot will hopefully help us when it comes to storyboarding and filming our own music video, letting us learn how to achieve a common shot type of music videos and make sure we achieve it to the best of our ability.
After looking at the original vidoe we decided to try and practise a few still shots to look at camera angles, lighting, mise en scene and costume. Doing this allows us to have a reference when setting up and capturing the four second shot. The stills we ended with are below.
The first shot we felt was a little too close, whilst also showing more of the tree than we wanted. Because we spotted this, we then knew how to change the shot in order to make it more accurate to the original. We also felt that the camera angle need to be a little higher and it was also obvious to us that we need to perform some colour grading on the final shot to make it match. Thinking about location, we chose an area that held a similar, gnarled tree to the one seen in the video with grass behind it. Before shooting we listed what kind of things we would need.
Our second shot was greatly improved upon the first, though still not as acurate as we wanted. We also attempted to perfect the panning motion so that when we film we'll be able to get it right.
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