Day 9 of Filming

Day 9 of filming included a place in Thamesmead which backed onto the river. This was because we had left the timing too late and we desperately needed footage but due to school time hours, if we went up to London to film, this would have meant the weather would be too dark to film. This way, we traveled to Thamesmead and filmed some good footage!! We then went back to my house and began filming the ending-she was going to die. We researched the ending before performing it and watched a video "Jamie T-Sheila." In this video, it is spent with a male character walking and miming, and at the end he ends up putting flowers on the grave. This video was very simple and ours differed from this, but the ending was similar. We thought this was a good idea as it didn't give the storyline away about how she died, but made it clear that she did. Feedback from our rough cut said there was not a straight forward storyline, and I think we gave that story line for our final cut. We also filmed the "You know what we started" part on the wall at my house as I had a plain and large wall suitable for filming. The memorial part was filmed in my back garden.

Day 8 of Filming

Once we got our feedback from the rough cut, we reliased we really had to do some work in order to bring our music video up to the standard we want. We began by filming the female character in the house again, but tried new things and established a storyline. It was set-the ending had changed but we were mysterious as to unravel it to the class. We filmed all the females parts and were happy with the footage we got from this day.

Day 7 of Filming

Monday 30th January 2012
Due to work commitments, I was unable to attend the filming. However, Emma and Charlie went to London to re-film some parts which were unsatisfactory. This included refilming the graffiti parts in South Bank to overcome the problems.

Day 6 Of Filming

Tuesday 24th January 2012
On Tuesday, myself, Emma and Charlie all went to London. We re-filmed the stair process at Crayford Station and went to London Oxford Street to film the rest.
PROBLEMS
When we looked at our footage from this day from a long and hard day of filming in London, we reliased that the filming from Southbank Skate park/Graffiti area, the footage was lost. This left us devastated as it meant we could not edit it into the music video as we hoped, as we would have to all try and find another day we could re-film this part.

Day 5 Of Filming

Wednesday 18th January 2012
On Thursday, we decided to re-film the bad memories from the park to ensure we filmed precisely and so it looked much better.

Day 4 Of Filming

Saturday 14th January 2012
On Saturday, we used both our actor, Charlie and our actress, Megan. However, i filmed them by myself as Emma had work commitments. The point of the filming on the Saturday morning was to film all the happy memories they both shared. I also filmed the memories of them walking. This went good and we began to edit all the scenes so far in class.

Day 3 Of Filming

Tuesday 11th January 2012
On this day, both myself and Emma, as well as Charlie, met up at Albany Park Train station to film some parts for the film. Firstly, we had Charlie stand on the station stairs so we could create part of our introduction of movement. Secondly, we decided to film the part where Charlie was standing and watching a train pass by him. We filmed both scenes several times to ensure we got a accurate film for our music video.
PROBLEMS.
After filming and uploading to the computer, we reliased we needed a camera tripod to film the stair scene. This was because the movment of the camera was shaky and moved regulary, so we needed the tripod so the camera was still and would look more professional, meaning this needed to be re-filmed.

Day 2 Of Filming

Sunday 8th January 2012
By Sunday, a lot had changed in the group. We had a new main male character (Charlie) and planning on days and locations to start filming. We went to Dartford to find some location shots we thought might be suitable for filming. This was because we were looking for places with graffiti in, however they had all been covered up with white paint so this area was no good for our filming which was disappointing.

The Filming begins...

Tuesday 20th December 2011

Both myself and Emma began our filming for the music video. Due to our problem of the main male character (Sam) dropping out, we decided that we must carry on and film. To overcome this and to not lose a day filming, we began by filming the female scene where she is in her room upset, and throws/smashes the teddy bear and photo frame. Even though this scene was only to cover about 20 seconds of the music video as a whole, it took us over a hour to film as not only did we have to act out the scene, we had to think about the timings and had to change the view and angle of the camera several times. We ended up with 4 different angled shots of the scene to work with.