Filming

Today I filmed my music video in 3 locations - the local riverside walk, my house and a relatives house. I was overall very pleased with the result.

My actors arrived on time, allowing us to keep to our schedule. We put all the equipment in the car and my dad drove us to the closest entrance to the walk. We had borrowed a trolley from a neighbour which we used to put all the equipment onto, to take to the site I had chosen. We were lucky that there was enough space for my actors to move in and for me to move the camera in, although the wheels on the spreader got muddy. I had difficulty at some points at tilting the camera far down enough when I was filming the woman lying down, or the rose on the ground. However, I managed to work around this by moving the camera slightly further back and zooming in. Part of the video in this location requires the woman to look dead. My actors often found the intensity too much and would start laughing and it would take a while for them to calm down enough to return to the scene.

We completed filming in this location in just over an hour and then went back to my house. I chose to film the performance part of the video in my house as we have a plain white wall which was ideal for this part of the video, which I wanted to be completely separate from the narrative. This part was very easy to film as I didn't have to move the camera at all, although I had to ensure that I had the white balance set properly as there was so much white in the frame. As this part was completely lip syncing based I was glad to see that both my actors had learnt the lyrics and understood them. They followed my advice in terms of facial expression and how to keep their lip syncing in time.

After filming this in an hour, we took the equipment back into the car and drove to my relative's house. Setting up the equipment here was very difficult as they didn't want us to touch any furniture. However, their house provided us with a perfect space for the parts of the narrative that we were filming there as it had a timeless atmosphere. 
My main problem during filming was not pressing the record button properly which upon reviewing the footage, I have noticed meant that I missed out on some shots. If I find that this is a problem during filming I will take equipment out of school again to fill any spaces.

We all enjoyed ourselves filming the music video and I look forward to editing it.