The day was a monday, i was aiming to film the majority if not the whole of the beginning section of the video on that day. I had myself and the main character ready to go and three hours to film. The beginning of the video is the man on his own walking round, so thats what we did, went for a walk. The very begging part of the video is the man getting ready so we see him do up his tie, put on his jacket, fasten a button, brush his shoulder (all extreme close ups) and then the following shot is him leaving the house. The door closing in time to the last drum beat before the first verse begins. So we filmed all of those shots very easily, as they all were quite simple my actor didnt feel embarrased so we flew past those bits. Afterwards we just went for a walk, filming bits that i thought would be interesting to watch, there was a little bit of structure but not alot, we freelanced a little bit. We started off with the filming of the feet that would definately be used in the video because well it doesnt really matter where that was filmed, we did this on route to the locations. Some of the filming of the legs and of behind the actor i took while he wasnt paying attention, this allowed me to get the neccessary footage without him looking all stiff or forced/like he'd been told to walk and he didnt get camera shy. Agin some of this was on route to other locations. Then we went to a bridge at the bottom of my road and i managed to tick a whole load of shots off my list, i got several different angles; him walking through shot, long shot of him on the bridge while i was filming from the ground, behind him, close ups, medium shots, following shots and others. Then we went down a few alleys, to a park, behind some garages and i got more footage of just general walking. I think on that day i managed to get enough footage for the beginning of the video easily. The tricky bit was still to come ...
... The rest of the attempts ive made to try and get footage have all been in vein, i have been severley let down by people on several occasions. As a result my progress has grinded to a halt, as the rest of the video includes other people following the main character and this is exceedingly difficult to film if you dont have the people that follow to film. So with just the beginig of my video filmed and the threat of the weather turning snowy and ruining my continuity im am in danger of not being able to get the rest of my footage. I waited out the snow filming all the green screen parts whilst waiting; the singers parts, instrumental pieces and the individuals chorus lines for the group multiscreen chorus. When the weather did finally clear up i was able to go and film the rest of the video, i got all of the girls alone walking parts and the together scenes filmed in one day, with the content being walking i could film inbetween traveling to locations which cut down the time it took to get all the footage. I then kept the camera and took it down to work and out to places to get more individuals singing the chorus line. After that i took the camera down to dartford town centre and filmed the movement of the public to go on the green screen behind the singer and guitarist; this took about two hours to do. Overall i found that the filming process was long and as a result of my original plan not working out i struggled when i had to change it because all of my planning, the storyboard, shot list and production schedule were for the original idea. Although despite all of the problems that occured i felt that i managed to get the footage needed for the new idea in an efficient way and if it wasn't for the bad weather i would have got it all filmed a little quicker.
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