Today, Elliot, Max and I filmed one of the first scenes for our music video.
The scene shows myself driving into the distance, followed by a tracking and zooming shot. As the car gets further away from the camera, Elliot (sitting in the passenger seat) carelessly throws a handful of money out the window.
Here is a picture of the tripod and the car we were using during the filming of our first shoot - which was the money throwing out the window scene. The weather was sunny and crisp and therefore it was an ideal time to film this scene as we could see everything clearly when filming and reflected the Californian image. We photocopied 5, 10 and 20 pound notes so that we could use something that looked realistic to throw out of the car window.
We used a normal tripod to film the car and simply zoomed in and out to follow the car successfully rather than having to follow the car in order to get the shot we wanted, as that would have been hard to do and we may not have got a clear shot.
This scene is influenced directly by Adorno's Theory of the culture industry. Adorno suggested that today's society influences and encourages needless materialism and that people are kept satisfied by this need for things that are not actual necessity's, which has been manufactured by a huge
industry that churns out basic brain food to keep the human
population satisfied.
Bibliography:
Adorno, Theodor (1991), The Culture Industry: Selected essays on mass culture, Routledge, London.
You worked well in the lesson. When you looked at the filming, there was positive feedback but also the decision to return straight away and shoot a CU of the hand holding the notes, as they were not clearly identifiable as money.
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