Filming Day 3: Friday 28th October

Today we filmed at Normanby Hall and we revised the farm location due to not being able to film here yesterday. We arrived early at the farm location to ensure that we were going to get done in plenty of time to make sure we had enough time left to go to Normanby Hall and record. Luckily we finished at the farm within an hour of arriving, all of the shots we had planned went to plan and I am very happy with the result of the trip. One of the shots we had planned to film at the farm was a shot of Sophie ripping up a photograph of herself and Charlie, to ensure we got the perfect shot we decided to take four copies of the photograph. Taking numerous copies of the photograph was a fantastic idea as it gave us the opportunity to take the shot from different angles e.g over her shoulder, looking up at her and a long shot of her. We then moved on to Normanby Hall, here we had to shoot one of the memories for the video and then eight lines of the song. Everything that we filmed here we filmed directly from our storyboards which made the process very quick, easy and very time efficient. So overall I am extremely happy with everything we filmed today and how Morgan, Indya and I worked as a team throughout the process of filming.

Filming Day 2: Thursday 27th October

Today the locations we planned on using were the scene at Sophie's house in the bath, the memory scene in the snug and finally the abandoned farm. However, upon arrival to the farm it came to our attention that some people were at the farm that could potentially effect our filming so we decided to change our filming at the farm to Friday morning. Instead of going to the farm we decided to go down a public footpath which was near the farm anyway just so we wasn't wasting time to take some photo's of Sophie that could be used for the digipak. This was successful and we got a couple of images of Sophie with some landscaped backgrounds. The memory we filmed in the snug turned out really well, the narrative our video is based around is domestic abuse, so we have a memory of a time that our male actor gets angry due to Sophia not being ready to go out then gets aggressive. This scene took along time to film as we wanted to make it tasteful but yet get across a strong narrative of a very current problem in the world. The scene in the bath we have decided to re-film due to having another idea after we had finished filming. We are going to try our new idea and then decided in editing which we prefer. Overall I believe that today didn't go aswell as the previous, however we still have got alot of scenes done.

AN UNEXPECTED CHANGE

We just arrived at the abandoned farm and set up the tripods! However it turns out that in one of the rooms there is a group of teenage boys smoking and being very loud. After a group discussion we decided that there is NO WAY it would be possible to film in this location at this time so we are just about to find an alternate location which could give us the same effect that the farm would've.

We will return to the farm again tomorrow morning to see if we can get the shots that we initially planned.

Filming Day 1: Wednesday 26th October

Today was our first day of shooting our music video 'Gravity'. Locations which we used today was the door scene at Amy's house, the bedroom at my house and the bathroom at my house. During the day we got everything we wanted to get done filmed. At our first location we had no problems as everything went really well. However during the second scene we were planning to film we struggled to get the lighting right. As the scene we were trying to film in the bedroom is to be at night, however due to having the curtains and the blinds shut this made seeing the faces of Sophie and Charlie extremely hard. We tried numerous ways to solve this problem, including using fairy lights above the actors heads and having Amy our helper for the day standing with a lamp pointing at the ceiling so it didn't make the scene look too bright so it is a realistic light for a nighttime scene. Finally all of the shots we took in the bathroom went really well. Overall I believe that our first day went really well and  I believe that we are well on target for the rest of our filming.

Planning: Story Boards

Planning: Normanby Hall Risk Assessment

Planning: Farm Risk Assessment