Shooting Diaries

Tuesday 18th January:

Unfortunately due to poor weather conditions we couldn't go to our set location to shoot today, however we managed to find a similar setting near to college and decided to get our base shots done here. We found that as it was our first time filming, we couldn't get us much done as we'd anticipated and decided to carry on the next week. For today's session I was in charge of the camera as all other members of my group were involved as actors. I found it difficult at first to get used to using the equipment but once a few shots had been done, it quickly became very simple. I filmed many of the group shots and single shots of the boys walking through the forest.

Tuesday 25th January:

We decided that we may as well stick to the same location as before to shoot today so that there was not a noticeable change in the scenery.We focused on individual shots of the band members to use as fillers throughout the instrumental parts of the song. To incorporate a range of shots we differentiated between long, short and mid-length shots. As not all the boys were involved in the filming at the same time this week, we took it in turns to shoot. A problem we found was the uneveness of the ground due to it being outdoors. We soon overcame this though by leveling out the tripod till we got it to a steady height. Today I filmed many more of the single shots and we also found a bridge which I filmed some shots of the boys using.

I'd say we're roughly half way through our filming schedule.

Tuesday 1st February:

Due to bad organisation today had to be persponed as one of my group members had forgotten to book a camera! We will carry on filming again next week, when I will ensure a camera is definitely booked!

Tuesday 8th February:

Today we focused on doing the shots of the girl, which became considerably difficult as we came to realise some of our ideas were too farfetched. We overcame this by thinking of new shots we could include that were simple but would look very good. An example of this was by making the girl disapear when one of the band members walked up behind her. I filmed this particular shot and achieved this by pausing the camera when the band member reached her and making the girl get out of the shot and then carried on filming. Towards the end of the shoot, the weather turned and it became too dark for us to carry on. The rest of my group have decided to finish of the filming this Friday.

Friday 11th February:

My group finished off filming today, but unfortunately I had to work so couldn't attend the session. All filming should be done and ready to edit now!

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Tuesday 22nd February:

Unfortunately some of our footage was lost, so today we had to retake some of the shots taken from the 4th February. As the girl who we had used could not attend this day I had to step in and play the role. This was a problem as we obviously didn't look alike, however we overcame this by adapting the shots so I was more out of focus and used long shots rather than close ups. I did a small amount of other filming today so we had numerous amounts of shots of the boys on there own we could use as fillers throughout our video.

Fingers crossed all is done now!