Filming Day 3

For our final day of filming, we used the school canteen in John Cabot to film our last narrative scene of the music video. We went in between break and lunch time so it was relatively quiet and filmed Emma sat near the window, at a table by herself. Then we filmed Susan (who was also filmed in the garden scene at Emma's house) coming through the door and walking straight past her. We filmed this part from many different angles for example, an over the shoulder shot of Emma so we could see Susan walking towards her, a close up of Emma to see her expression as Susan walks past and a two shot of both of them to give the audience a clear idea about what's going on. Filming in here was quite difficult as the canteen is surrounded by windows, and as our filming day was sunny, it meant we had to position the characters and camera in a place where we could have good lighting without any shadows or making them seem too brightly lit.

Filming Day 2

We managed to film most of our scenes on Tuesday, but needed to add an extra performance shot. We have a drama studio in BBA which is used for several performances, and has staging blocks with a lighting system so we thought this would be a perfect setting for a performance shot. The curtains in the studio are black which were useful as we were able to create a plain background, making sure that the main emphasis would be on Emma. We used some stage blocks, at first just using one level but then moving one on top of the other so she was more central to our shots. We chose different angles to shoot from, one low angled shot to make her look more powerful as she was singing and the attention would all be on her, we used a close up of her face as she was singing and another shot where she was stood in the middle of the camera and you could see the whole of her body. We filmed each of these shots twice as we didn't know what lighting would look best on the screen. We filmed once using a spotlight which focussed on Emma, and another one with just some background lights so she was visible but not as blatant.

Filming Day 1

We chose to start shooting on a Tuesday as all three of us in our group have a media lesson in the morning and are free for the rest of the day, as well as this our friend Emma who we'd asked to be in our video was free too meaning that we had a whole day to film. We were really lucky to choose this day as it was really sunny outside which worked well for the style of our song but also provided good lighting for us and enabled us to easily work outside.

We started off by choosing an outfit for each scene we were going to film, picking mainly casual clothes for the majority of the scenes and a more dressy outfit for just one of the performance shots. We felt that this reflected our target audience as they are quite a young age and would tend dress in more casual clothes than the outfits that are mainly seen in similar music videos.

We started off in the morning by filming all the shots we need indoors, for example, in the bedroom mirror and on the bed. then around midday when it was slightly warmer, we filmed our outdoor shots like where the two girls are sat on the bench and when the main character was sat on the wall outside. We had to move the camera into different positions to make sure we had a good amount of lighting but without having shadows over Emma's face as it would affect the quality of our filming. We mainly filmed our shots using the whole song, but there were a few shots where we just filmed random parts without music so we could use them between different performance shots throughout the video.

We were quite lucky when filming outside as the street which Emma's house is on was relatively quiet, especially seeing as we chose to film during the day when most people are at work or school.