Filming Day 2

The second day of filming

Our second shoot was located in the studio of the art department at our school, we only needed our actor, Joe, for this part of the filming. Prior to his arrival, I had to create a powerpoint presentation which included some interesting, edgy images and gifs which we could project onto the white backdrop which he will be sat in front of. We booked a projector and the art room a week in advance so we were not wasting our actors time; the art room was urgently needed on the day which meant that we had to improvise and practise what Joe would have to do so that he is confident.
We met Joe at 9:30 in our school car park, we had to take him to receive a visitors pass so that he was allowed to be in the school premises.

The images and gifs which I included in my powerpoint were full of nature, the sky, nighttime related things such as the dark sky, the moon and stars. We also found some really nice images of oil iridecent which we thought would be really indie to use, the mixing of cool colours symbolised the mixed emotions of the singers as they don't know what they want out of their relationship.

Here are some of the images below:

Filming Day 1

First Day of Filming
27th September 2016

Our first day of filming is done!
Firstly we took some test shots of different locations of Windsor/Eton before filming a few time lapse clips of pedestrians walking across the bridge to show the passing of time. We met Talulah at 4:30 on Eton bridge and talked to her about what we were planning to do in the following hours. The lighting wasn't the best at this time but we decided to proceed with filming rather quickly before the darkness crept up on us. Secondly, we made sure she was familiar with the song and gave her props to put in her pocket, for example, the phone. The first location we decided to film our actress was outside a flower shop just beside the bridge, 'Flowerz' has a beautiful display of roses which is a particularly symbolic within our piece, therefore we thought this worked quite well. Just in front of the shop is a large bench which Talulah sat on as she mimed her lines; in order to make sure the lip syncing looked perfect, we had the music playing out loud so that she could sing along.

After we completed the shots outside Flowerz, we headed towards the river side to get some scenic footage of Talulah. Whilst doing this we made sure that we had the camera strap around our necks at all times and that the lense cap was on at all times when not filming. Cordelia and I managed to get some really good shots by the waters edge which fitted really well with our chosen genre, however we found that passers by were rather distracting as they were so interested in the production of our video. Whilst Talulah was learning some of the lines towards the end of the song we decided to make the most out of this time and catch some interesting footage of the river and more location establishing shots. Luckily we were able to get a nice shot of swans flying above the water which looked amazing and fit into our video nicely as most indie videos include references to nature.