Filming with Seb

As planned we used the neon face paint I purchased to film with Seb. The filming location we used that worked almost perfectly was our school dark room, which is normally used for developing. As Seb is not part of our schools sixth form Ellie and I had to get him a visitors pass so he would be allowed to film on the school premise. We had set the dark room up before he had arrived and so wasted no time in getting to work filming. I brought both makeup brushed and paint brushes to the filming session. The large brushes Ellie and I used to create large strokes on Seb's cheeks and neck. The smaller brushes we then used to make smaller details, creating shapes and patterns down Seb's nose and around his lips and eyes. We used a small fan brush coated in yellow neon face paint to coat Seb's eyelashes this gave a really interesting effect when filmed as Seb blinked, something that is normally overlooked, neon face paint highlighted this and brings it to the forefront of the viewers attention. To make sure that the face paint was looking as good as it did while creating we made sure to keep turning the lights off and using the black light torch to check on the face paint as we built it up. We finally used a mixture of white and blue neon face paint to paint Seb's lips. In preparation we had asked Seb to learn the words to our chosen song. Learning from our successes and failures we asked Seb to lip sync as much as possible and filmed much more than we needed, this then ensured that we had shots to fall back on if when it came to editing some of the shots weren't what we were looking for. One of the hardest things to overcome on this particular filming session was that due to the lack of lighting it was extremely difficult to keep the camera in focus at all times. Especially when we decided to give some shots a unique edge by moving the blacklight torch about Seb's face. The camera for these shots needed to be constantly adjusted and put back into focus. Overall, I am very pleased with the outstanding effort made by Seb who took direction and even came up with ideas himself that helped Ellie and I. I am also pleased to say that I believe the outcome of this filming session to be positive. The neon face paint shows a unique take on ordinary close lip-syncing. This is not something you see in many music videos, but it works so well with our chosen genre and I look forward to adjusting the levels when editing to show the full effect of the neon face paint and the mood it will set in our final outcome.