Shooting Diaries

Week One: On our first shoot in Seaford, our filming seemed to go well, shooting the scenes outside the house, in the playground and some of the beach ones. We shot over 2 days, staying at Jess's to maximise the amount of filming time we had, as the hours of daylight were significantly reduced at this time of year. I did most of the filming on these days, while Jenny was the director and Jess was the star, on the establishing shots, Jess filmed; while me and Jenny occasionally passed by in the background. After looking back at our footage we realised that we would have to reshoot outside the house and in the playground due to something being on the lens of the camera. While at Jess' we also took some of the pictures that we would be needing for the advert and digipak.



Week Two: Our second week of shooting, in Eastbourne, was slightly more succesful and we ended up with more footage that we could use. Once again, we did filming over two days; staying at my house to give us plenty of time to film. We filmed dance scenes in a playing field near my house which was a bit tricky because we didn't have very much choreography and we're not very good dancers so were limited with what we could do; in the end we succesfully filmed enough to give us something to work with. I did a lot less filming here and more directing and 'dancing' in the scenes that didn't involve the singer. We also filmed scenes on Eastbourne Peir and beach which can be interchangable with the shots from Seaford beach.

Inbetween the first and the second shoot we uploaded what footage we had to look back on using final cut pro and cut down some of the scenes in to fit our storyboard time scale. From this we could also see that there was a slight problem on the playground shots (from week one) that ideally should be reshot at another time.

Week Three: The third shoot in Lewes town was a relatively short one, as we only needed to film three or four scenes. This was quite quick and we managed to get each shot in only two or three takes each.

Picture taken from the same angle as one of our shots in Lewes Town

Week Four: The fourth shoot was back in Seaford to redo some of the very fist scenes we shot as well as completeing footage in the graveyard which we'd run out of time to do previously.

Week Five: We had a little bit of trouble finding another person to be in the scene as we'd already used each of our group in previous shots; Jess as the central character and Me and Jenny as Dancers. For the bedroom scenes we went back to Seaford and set up a 'bed' at Jess' house on the floor so that I could set up the tripod to film from above. I was setting up the scene while Jess was Acting with Jack and Jenny was being director and sorting the music. I think in the end this was very succesful and we managed to get all the scenes we needed. By the following week we'd managed to upload everything we'd filmed and were happy with it all; this meant we didnt need to film anything else.

Also, one week during lesson; we used the cameras to film a time lapse as a whole class; this helped us with more techiniques that we could potentially incorporate into our video; here's the link:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B2Xzmm6bQJK-M2U2YTA3NmQtOTFhMy00OTMzLTljYzYtYjY1OTg0ZTU0YWY2&hl=en