19th January 2010
We started our filming today. We chose to film Shot 9 first as it was indoors and gave us a good chance to practice our filming technique. We used a tripod and Video camera and positioned it in the center of the room. I was quite surprised how difficult and how long everything took to set up. However we set the scene up, placing several bottles of "alcohol" around the room and got the actors into position.
4th February 2010
We started to capture back and began editing the first few sequences in our video.
12th February 2010
Me and Becca started to film the girls going out, this was going to be shot in Becca's bedroom.
however we did have a problem with some of the actors as they couldn't make it on time and so we had to use only 2 people instead. We then filmed the girls leaving the house when it was dark, but because the camera had no lights it was quite difficult to see what was going on. So we positioned a car with its head lights on, aiming at the girls leaving.
This was quite a good learning curve as we realized we couldn't do this for our entire music video so we had to do all our filming in the daylight. This did effect the videos continuity but i think overall it worked. We also used the experience of our first shoot to correct and prevent anything from going wrong.16th 18th and 23rd of February
we had planned to film on these days, however due to bad weather conditions we were unable to film. However instead of wasting time we used those days to capture back and edit or footage. we found this quite useful as we then knew how much more we needed to film and if we had left anything out.
2nd of March
We drove to Brighton and filmed the majority of the film. This was when the boys left the house and began their journey to the clubs. This was the first time we had filmed in a open public place where there where many factors that we couldn't change. However once we captured back the footage i was really pleased by the way it looked. We tried to stick to our planned shooting script, however we found some of the shots to difficult to compose, such as the zooming in on the window and entering the room.
9th and 16th of March
We did most of our editing and realised that we still had quite a bit of filming to do. I did find editing quite hard as it took a while to get used to the different controls, but Becca seemed to master the controls after just a few turns. This did mean she end up doing the majority of the editing and in an ideal world we would each have equal turns, but toward the end we were pushed for time and Becca was the best and quickest at using the software.
23rd of March
We finished the rest of the filming today but because several of the female actors couldn't make the shoot we had to use Vicky and Nichole as stand in. At first i thought that this would effect the continuity of our video, but it turned out that it worked really well as they both new what to do and carried out the actions faultlessly.
We did try to film the girls entering a club however at that time they were not open, so we had to settle for a pub instead. We also had to compromise the ending as we didn't have enough people to film the closing shot. We then went back to our original idea of filming on the pier and have the main boy and girl walking of into the distance. Unfortunately we were not allowed to film on the actual pier and had to film the from outside in. Also the large no. of people on the pier made it difficult to get a clear shot. However we pursued an got some really good footage.
It did end up that we forgot to pay for parking tickets and ended up getting fined for 3 cars nearly cost £150, but it was all worth it to get the final footage for our video.
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