Filming diary

We began our filming with our first shoot at the beach. We had thought about our setting clearly therefore we were down there from 7am to get the suset panning shot which is now being used in our video. The lighting was great by about 7:30 when we were all set up. We had disgussed our costumes and used the white dresses throughout the entire narrative to complimnent the black and white theme. We managed to get some interesting and good shots on this Thursday morning which made the main of our rough cut video. Using a tripod and camcorder was all we needed as natural light was provided.The only prop used was a piece of parchment, which enabled us to focus on the acting and the storyline.


Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday
19/10/09.20/10/09.21/10/09
We began out performance shoots on these dates, we filmed in the drama hall with lighting and a 5 piece band. The first performance shoot was noticeably unprepared and I feel this showed in the play back of the footage, we decide to reshoot the whole band performance as we found it was not at the standard that the rest of our music video was at.

Sunday 18/11.09
We decided to add more footage of the two main characters, so again we arranged to meet at the same location and same spot for continuity issues. We shot somemore footage which has been used in our video. we used the same equiptment as what was used for the earlier narrative shots.

Saturday 7/11/09
We now were completing our third and final narrative shoot, we were filming two girls to create this image of the 2 characters as children, we used a still image camera to connect the stop start imagery used in the opening and closing shots of the rose. This works effectivly throughout.




These are some of the images which were taken on the day of the shoot


Thursday 19/11/09
The reshoot of the Band took place at the lighthouse beach; this was a running theme through the video which allowed us to create interesting and unique band shots. Filming for only two hours of performance shots required me to do a lot of preparation. We, as a group needed to arrange who was bring what and a time that was appropriate , we found that filming early in the morning worked well for all members of our groups due to other commitments on night times. So at 7 am we arranged to meet at the lighthouse in the area, seven was the earliest we could film this was because of the winter season and the late sunrise, the darkness would effect the filming as we were using natural lighting. We started setting up prompt; we made sure that the lighthouse was visible in the background to create the correct mise-en-scene. By 7.45 we were set up with a full drum kit, guitar, amplifier and microphone. We used mini speakers to play the song so that we could hear the music and play along to the tempo.





These are some shots which were taken throughout the set up of the band shots on the beach. You can see the clear change of lighting within the space of about 30 minutes which really enabled me to get good clear shots with good lighting. After four full songs playbacks including static and mobile shots we each filmed one another to use as band close up to fit with codes and conventions of music videos we felt as though we had reached our full potential on the beach. Due to our limited time, efficiently we also look still images that would be used on our DVD cover on the same day which worked out well as the weather was good considering its winter.