Recording Process

In order to create footage for our film we first recruited our models in order to see who we could use for our film. We ended up having 5 models; 4 boys and 1 girl.

When allocating our film time we took into consideration our frees and the models frees.

Shoot 1

This shoot was taken in the studio as we focused on having the clothes as the main attraction. Here our studio set up up was mainly simple LED lights against a white backdrop as we wanted the colours of the clothes to be clear and contrast well against the backdrop. As we only had 1 girl we decided to use 3 “masculine” outfits. The first a Mens suit that fit her well and that she loves wearing we thought this was a great idea as traditionally women at formal events will wear dressed or other feminine alternatives and yet yet she is wearing a Mans suit which I think is quite powerful. The other two outfits is a combination of mens clothes such as mens jeans and mens cardigan which fit a masculine body yet here our model is wearing it well and with confidence.

Shoot 2

For our second shoot we couldn’t access the studio so we chose the Drama studio as a a secondary location, we chose this due to it having a mirror and table space which helped minic a home environment. For this shoot the main focus although was primarily on the models clothing choice; we thought we’d stretch those gender barriers further by having him put on makeup and feminine perfume and jewelry. This helped us to add something new to the shoot which helped to add to that rebellion side of our project as it is a controversial topic but that many people do and feel confident in wearing makeup and dressing in the opposite gendered clothing to a gsn break down that “gender barrier”

Shoot 3

For this shoot we moved back to the studio to take images and videos of the boys, here we picked out outfits for them and or let them pick what they were comfortable in wearing before taking these images. I think this shoot in particular went well us we had 3 people putting out our same message on cross dressing and breaking gender boundaries

Shoot 4

For the last shoot we decided to go outside and have the model pose in a more natural way; we thought that this could be a good idea as it was something different and we had really good lighting for this shoot.

We ended up changing a lot compared to our original plan; which at first was worrying but we realised that this ewass the easiest way to get through all the footage and make most the components in the footage we took work together, although this was a tough decision at first we were happy as we knew that this could arise in better outcomes

Sounds that we used in our film:

Interviews and reports
The Get Down interview – Jaden Smith talk about working with Louis Vuitton. (From 4:16 – 4:41)
Cross-dressing Taboo. (From 6:52 – 7:03)

Music and Ambiance
Song Five

Recorded Sounds
Opinions from the subjects ( 2 boys)

Editing

We chose to use Lightroom and Photoshop to edit our photos and audio recorders to crop audios; we placed everything together and created our film on Premier Pro

This is an example of a montage we created with a combination of videos and photos; here I started them at different times so that they could come on screen one by one.

Here is another example of a collage we created however this follows a different layout and these videos start and play all at the same time.

In this image it shows a lot of the behind the scenes process showing the different audios on top of videos/photographs such as background music on top of interviews on top of videos; this I think worked well as we didn’t want to keep the video simple but instead experimented with layering video and audio on top of each other. We also used effects at the start and end of the videos such as an “Exponential Fade” as this gave that cinematic effect to our piece and I think the fade of the logo alongside the fade in of the background music worked well together to ease the audience in to the film.