Filming Day 1

From producing our filming time schedule sheet, we began the first bit of our filming of the 5th February 2011. We had decided that it would be best to focus on both elements of the music video individually so that we could focus on each one separately to ensure quality was as good as possible. The other reason for doing this was to make sure that our actors and helpers were not wasting their kindly donated time by standing around aimlessly, and becoming de-motivated.

On the first day (5th Feb) we focused heavily on filming the miming, or 'singing', section of the video. The weather was not good in the morning at about 9:00am so we agreed to wait until 11:00am to see if the weather had improved or at least the rain had stopped. The weather conditions had not changed by 11:15am but we still arranged to meet at 11:30am (our set time) at our location - Acton Trussell farm. When we arrived at our location, we double checked our required equipment list (this allowed one of us to drive home to get anything if we'd forgotten it) and began to carry the equipment (camera, tripod and lighting) to the Oak tree where we would be filming this section of the music video. 

In order to get enough footage, we filmed Ben (our male lead), miming the entire song, in sections, from many different angles: straight on (mid, close ups and extreme close up), from above and below, over the shoulder etc). By doing this it gave us a wide range of footage to play around with and use when we came to edit our project. As well as giving us a variety of creative shots to consider, it also meant that if any shots were not suitable (out of time lip syncing, objects in shots, marks on the camera lens) we had enough footage of each shot so we could ensure that at least one of the shots was usable when editing.

We shared duty's throughout the day and tried to rotate and be fair when allocating. The main jobs we divided out where of course filming, along with lighting, lighting aids (reflectors, filters) and 'water control', which meant keeping equipment dry, as well as the actor and lens of the camera so that the footage was not ruined with unwanted rain marks on the lens.