Filming Day #1 Review

Today I began filming alongside my cast member Dean Houghton, we began with an early start, we both met at the specified location of The Market Place at 10AM, fully prepared with my equipment and my cast member suitabley dressed for the occassion as you can see below. We began by trying out a number of test shots to ensure that the camera and its equipment was working correctly, as well as to try and get the best feel possible for the lighting and the surrounding environment.

Having tested out everything we began to crack on with the specified shot list, we felt that once we had nailed all of the specified shots that would then be able to free role with the camera and experiment with some other shots that could potentially be used as filler shots. We started to collate the shots and use the good lighting whilst it lasted, I cracked on with trying to get the lip syncs of the main chrous done in order to ensure that I had a large amount of footage to take out of the first day of filming, once all of this was done we began to experiment with some shots.

I used my phone to feed through the music for my cast to lip-sync and act to, we moved locations slightly and took ourselves over to the market street, this location can be viewed in the picture below. This was a suitable setting as it kept with the scene of the market place. It added a vintage feel to it and it had a variety of features that can be used to add a stylish and creative effect to the production. The florists shop adds to the feel of the video and suits the song well as the song is about first dates, romance and love so this really was something I felt worked well.