Shooting & editing go two seperate ways...

Now that we have all the clips and shots from the studio session uploaded the next thing we had to do was to begin editing. The studio session included a lot of shots  however and may take some time editing.  As a group we decided to use our time more effectively this time and agreed that it is counter productive for all of us to sit and edit one video. We therefore agreed that while Bradely woked on the editiing of the video, me and Darren would go off and get other shots that needing doing, done. So this is what we done today and we definelty made the most of our 2 hours media lesson. Me and darren shot mostly in the school premises. One of our task was to shoot a mirror shot. As a whole group we contemplated on this not too long ago and discussed how we would take the shot without being the camera or camre man being seen in the shot as the reflection of the mirror would show me. This was kind of a challenge for me and Darren today to see whether we could take theshot without any extras in the shot. We had seen it done before so we knew that we could work our way around it. This mirror shot is acually a very popular in many of Ed Sheerans videos and we felt that this was a similarity that we would pick from him and apply it to our Artist. This is a screen shot of some of Ed Sheerans mirror shots:

I tried experimenting a few times to try and achieve this shot. I first tried to take the shot from the side so it wasnt facing the mirror directly. this would mean that it would get the side of darrens face and still manage to capture the mirror into the shot. The problem was that by doing it this way it meant that we couldnt see the reflection in the mirror and instead we could only see Darren looking into a mirror. What i then did was that i was able to take the shot standing on a chair. This meant that i took it from a high angled shot as if the camera is looking down slighlty. Aswell as this i positioned my self at the door of the toilets which was slighlty to the right of the mirrror meaning that the reflection of the mirror couldnt capture me or the camera. The achievement of this shot along witht he efficient use of time made it a good day.