Knole House & Orlando

Last Friday, both our English and Media class went on a trip to Knole House in Kent, which used to belong to Vita Sackville West, Virginia Woolfs lover. The day was based around Virginia Woolfs novel 'Orlando' who's character changes sex from man to women, whilst living for centuries.
In the morning we were taken on a tour of the house in the style of a performance. Each room we were taken too represented a different time zone and their particular view on gender and gender identity, in relation to Vita Sackville West, Virginia Wolf and who 'Orlando' actually was. To see 17th, 18th and 19th century views on women was not only shocking but allowed me to challenge my initial thoughts on gender.
In the afternoon we took part in a small workshop, where we discussed gender and how it should not just described as 'binary' or two opposites. After this we watched Tilda Swinton's 1992 adaptation of 'Orlando' where we could see the progression of women's rights throughout the centuries.

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Final Music Video

Below is my final music video:

First Filming session

Today, Lauren and I had our first filming day. We had planned to film all our shots, which were in front of the green screen. Initially we found it difficult to fit the whole of our actor in the frame of the camera as not only was she was moving horizontally across the green screen but she had her hands vertically above her head, making it difficult to fit the whole move in the shot. However we were able to easily and effectively solve this problem by moving the camera back during the filming and then cropping the screen during the editing process. When filming we made sure we used our storyboard so we knew exactly what we were creating, however we also filmed extra shots incase they were needed in the editing stages. These are some photos of Lauren and I whilst filming our first shots.

First editing session

Over the weekend Lauren and I had another filming session. We quickly encountered many problems, the most significant being the lighting and reflection in the windows, which would be seen on camera. As a result we began taking our shots against a wall, where we filmed out actor singing the lyrics which we will later lip-sync. We also took multiple shots of our actor performing various dance moves which we can later edit. Although we were able to get some shots, in many we found the lighting was not quite right making the quality of the recording look slightly grainy and therefore not as good quality as we would have hoped. After selecting some of out clips we moved onto the first stage of editing. We quickly incorporated techniques we had hoped so including reversing the clip, slow motion and overlaying. This is the first rough cut of our music video.

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