A few days before the start of filming we found out that our main character for the video had other responsibilities and couldn't be in our video. We lost our original location too, as we were planning to film the video in her house and in a park in her area. This was slightly stressful as we hadn't predicted it would happen but fortunately we had two back-ups who were prepared to be in our video and they did extremely well. They are both performing arts students who have a lot of experience in acting and singing which was tremendously helpful. The female performer is called Aimee Sullivan and the male performer is Reuben Jones.
The problem for our location was solved by one of the members of my group who suggested that we use her auntie's house which was very suitable for the video we wanted to make. As Aimee and Reuben didn't finish college until 12:00 o'clock that day we had to wait for them to arrive after we picked up the equipment we needed from college and arrived on set. Meanwhile we went to a charity shop nearby and had a look around to see if there was anything else we could use in our video. Luckily, we found a pearl necklace which was very useful and was featured in our video. The next thing we did was going to a vintage shop where we intended to take pictures of objects that we could use for our digipak and advert. Unfortunately the shop wasn't open and we found that we couldn't photograph from outside as the light was reflecting in the window and the pictures wouldn't have been of great quality.
When Aimee and Reuben arrived we picked up our equipment and filmed all of the park scenes which only left us the house scenes to do. The beginning stages of filming went smoothly although we did have some technical issues with the tripod, which we easily resolved. When we went back to the house we filmed all of the shots from the storyboard and also we decided to film Aimee singing the song from different places in the house which was a back up in case we didn't like any of the scenes we had filmed. This was really useful as while editing we found that we used them a lot and they made the whole video look better.
All of the shots with Reuben had to be filmed on the first day because he was unable to take time of college the next day, so we made sure that we had filmed the scenes involving him first. We tried to stick to the storyboard but we also had a lot of good ideas that came from the cast and ourselves that we decided we should include in our video. I think this was a good thing because it made it more varied and the cast felt like their opinion was taken into account too.
The day finished at 4:00 pm as we had to make sure we brought back the equipment that we had borrowed back to college. Most of the scenes were filmed and we had a clear plan outlined for the next one which made everything less worrying.
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