3rd day of filming

The third day of filming was a great success. During our media lesson and free periods we decided to film the ending for our music video which was located at a church in Basildon. As we drove past the church to park up we noticed that the church was a great location for the video as it was located near the top of a hill which made the mise en scene perfect for the mood we was trying to create. Once we parked up and set off to the church we noticed that there was still some ice left over from the previous week where it had been snowing. This created a problem for us as we had to make the shoots fit so that we do not film any snow. This meant that we could keep the same sort of weather conditions as before so that it works well in the film.

When we arrived at the church we set up our equipment and looked at the storyboard for the ideas of which shots to film. The first shot consisted of the main character running up the hill towards the church. For us to have plenty to choose from back in the editing suite we decided that we would get a variety of each shot, this took more time but as an end result it meant that we could choose the best shot for the film, even if it doesn’t exactly match with the storyboard.

Throughout the few hours that we filmed for we noticed that the weather conditions changed slightly. This would have created a problem but we decided to do a lot of the end shots differently. In the terms of differently, this means that we shot a lot of the shots where we did not show much of the sky.

The shots came well together throughout the day and the angles that we managed to film from were better than we expected. The consistent shots of the graves and the quick shots that we filmed means that we will be able to edit to the highest standard if all goes to plan.

Overall our group thought that the day was successful as we originally did not mean to plan to film on this day as the actor in our film was meant to be busy, this enabled us to be ahead of schedule and complete the ending of our film.