Filming Part 3

On the 22nd of February my group and our two actresses Harry Painter and Ellie Blancke filmed for the third time located at my house in Eynsford. In my house we filmed in the living room, kitchen, hallway/front door and just outside of my house.
   The scenes filmed on this day were the finishing scenes to our video featuring Harry and 'Elle' arguing, leading on to Harry throwing Elle out of his house (my house is Harry's house in the video). On this day we also filmed the memory scenes in the same location, the memory scenes are all happy times between Harry and Elle consisting of day time strolls, cuddles, laughter and just natural young, loved up couple behaviour.

On the day of filming we was extremely prepared and knew exactly what shots and scenes that we wanted to produce. We had already arranged wanted we wanted Ellie and Harry to wear and had arranged two costumes for them, one for the fight scene at the end of the video and the other for the memory scenes.

LIGHTING

Where we positioned the lights were extremely important to prevent them from being caught on camera and to prevent them from creating shadows in the shot.

 As Ellie and Harry are good friends in real life there was no awkwardness when filming as they both felt very comfortable with each other.

FILMING

To produce the required shot/angle we filmed at all different levels and in different positions to achieve the desired shot.

FILMING PROBLEMS

A member of our group, Charlotte Coe was unable to make the shoot due to other commitments. Usually this wouldn't be a problem but Charlotte was meant to be featuring in the video playing 'the other girl' who is Harry's female friend who Elle is extremely jealous of. Last minute I stepped in to play 'the other girl' to prevent us from getting behind on our filming schedule and the filming went well and the problem was solved.

The second major problem was that Harry had work so we only had limited time to film as we agreed to drive Harry to his work in a gesture of gratefulness for featuring in our video. But by keeping to the schedule created above we overcame this issue and managed to get all the filming done, just in time!

The final major problem was that the camera we was using to record was not fully charged when we received it which left us with limited battery time. The camera ran out of battery 10minutes before we had finished filming, so we decided to put the camera on charge while we packed up all the equipment into our cars. By the time we had finished packing everything up there was enough battery on the camera to film the finishing scenes.