Filming Day 2

My group planned to film the next part of our music video over the christmas half term when we had a lot of free time. The location of these scenes is Eysnford at the remains of a castle which means the background is a stone wall and so not too busy to take the attention off the actress. Before we began we asked Ellie the actress to wear the same outfit as she had before as well as to make her hair look the same, to ensure continuity throughout the music video.

Props
We organised the props we needed for this day of filming before we set out; this consisted of an alcohol bottle (which we half filled with water), a cigarette for the actress to light and a photograph of the two actors involved, however, we were unable to get this and so used a temporary prop of a piece of paper for now. We will however re-shoot this so it looks realistic and is inkeeping with our storyboard.

The Location

Lighting

Before we began filming we had to find a suitable area where the light was not too bright to make the film unclear, this was hard as it was quite early morning and the sun was moving round. The following pictures show different areas by this wall when we tried to find ideal lighting:

In this area was either very bright sunlight or a dark shadow.

Here there is still a shadow along the bottom half of the wall.

This shows the final area we chose to film in where the lighting was fairly consistent.

Problems we encountered



One of the scenes we filmed included lighting a cigarette, while another clip shows the actress setting a piece of paper on fire. This, which can be seen the above pictures, proved quite difficult due to the wind which was strong, blowing out the flames whenever we lit a match. We managed to light the cigarette by shielding the wind with ourselves, however, this could not be done for the paper being lit and so we will shoot that clip at another time hopefully when there is less wind.