Yesterday our class had a whole morning in the studio experimenting and practicing different pop video filming techniques. For our pop video practice we used the song “Get Lucky”, by Daft Punk. We had to practice lip reading so that we could be in sync with the music. The studio was split up into three different filming sets. The first set was the Green Screen. The Green Screen was a big wall in the studio painted green that you film in front of and the background can be altered to any scenery. I ask Matt for a bit more information on the Green Screen and he explained to me that it is the colour green because there is not a lot of green in human skin. Also the camera lens is made up of the three primary colours that includes 1 red, 1 yellow and 2 green. To set the background of the green screen you first have to set the background. Starting by no one being in the shot and then the actors or musicians can jump in.

 

The next set was the cave shot. There was artificial cave scenery in the background in which a light was shine onto to create shimmer in the rock to make it look more realistic. This shot was a tracking shot so we had all the equipment including tracking lines that are adjustable, a dolly (a platform that the cameraman sits on with a camera stand which is attached and then the dolly is pushed along the tracks by some pulling or pushing the handle. For the cave shot we used the dolly to move along the actors they were lip-reading to the song.