Friday, 4 October 2013

Filming Blog

Day 1

Today's filming consisted of getting the lip-syncing scenes that will form the main crux of our music video and basically form our timeline. We tried to get as much as we can in our time we had there and we pretty much got what we needed from the session and we didn't deviate too much from the regular plan. We had no trouble filming in our location, which was a street in the local area, and our actor was quite co-operative with us so there were not many misunderstandings or trouble between crew members , though he did have to improvise some of the lip-synching because he forgot to learn the lyrics of the song. Our angles were limited to a medium handheld shot but they were fine and the lip-synching of our actor wasn't that bad either so we got a pretty solid day of filming done. Next time we shall film our plot scenes for our little story which our music video is going to tell.

Day 2

Today's filming took place in the school with all three of our main actors present. We decided to film within the school foundation the scenes of our couple interacting with each other. Most of the shots were improvised and were somewhat experimental using techniques such as handheld and a variety of tracking shots. We managed to include a dance scene of our two protagonists which will most likely be a big part of our main production since it was quite a interesting concept to use within our production. There were hardly any difficulties during today's filming process, except with the final scenes of the major plot twist when we found out that they were cheating on another man, since the actors got a bit giggly and the crew weren't quite sure how to execute the shot in the best way possible. But other then that there were no problems with todays filming.

Day 3

The final day of filming was used to tie up any loose ends in the production's elements and to reshoot one scene which we weren't quite satisfied with. The scene in question was the revelation scene which troubled us because the actor (also part of the crew) who portrayed the betrayed boyfriend didn't like a hand gesture he made the near the ending of the confrontation so we quickly filmed that and went back to giving our production an ending that would hopefully satisfy. We decided it needed to be brief but poignant with a element of the unknown so he decided to leave it with the face of our protagonist looking sad while the girlfriend walks away. No problems and was overall a good end to our filming process, all we need to do know is complete our main production.

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