Day one filming!
Our first day filming today went extremely successfully, we managed to film all of our footage across 5 hours, however we are considering revisiting some of the shots in order to perfect them with the aim of creating our music video to the best possible standard. We followed our shooting script very closely throughout, whilst adding a few extra shots so that we have plenty to play around with when it comes to editing, and in case there are any shots that we feel won't fit effectively.
Myself and Keeley worked well together and both contributed an equal amount to the work, we were ready to film after a number of weeks gathering ideas and thoroughly planning our video so the process ran very smoothly and we weren't short of creativity.
We decided to film today as the forecast was positive and the weather stayed nice and dry for us to film in, the weather was an important consideration when it came to deciding when to film as the majority of our music video was filmed outside, and if our filming equipment was to get wet, it could seriously impair our shots.
Overall, I am extremely pleased with how our day of filming has gone and how myself and Keeley have worked together to begin creating our music video.
We needed a number of props when it came to filming today, including photographs, a bottle of alcohol, pills, a car, a phone, a photo album and a lighter. We gathered together all of our props before filming to ensure that we had everything that we needed. Keeley's car was crucial when it came to filming as all of our initial shots were filmed within the car, due to the location relating to the lyrics of the song. The alcohol and pills helped us to reiterate the dark theme that runs throughout both the song and our music video, making them crucial to filming also. The photographs needed to be burnt and ripped within one of the scenes, again this related to the morbid message that our chosen song tells. And finally, a phone was needed within one of the scenes to show an abusive message that was received by the protagonist, again, this was another way to show the dark theme that we were hoping to create throughout our video. Overall, all of these props played an important role whilst filming and will add great effect to our final product.
Whilst filming some of our final scenes, my makeup needed to appear as if I had been crying, this was important as it needed to be consistent to what was occurring in our video, and the ruined makeup allowed us to show sadness and despair. The transition from fresh makeup to ruined makeup at the end of our video showed how our protagonist's hope for herself deteriorated throughout the video, and as the video reached it's climax, our protagonist was ready to give up.
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