Filming diary

When I started to film some of my shots outside for my music video it was very windy outside which I did not take into account when filming some of the shots. I did my best to not show this in the shots by filming out of the direction of the wind. this worked very well for some of the shots with lip syncing because it didn't obstruct the actors facial expressions.

We only had a set amount of time during this day because this was when the actors who play the roles were free as we did it over dinner and Charlie and Corey asked their tutor if they could film for me and she granted them permission otherwise his would have taken away a large chunk of my filming.

I booked out a camera, tripod and an SD card from the media technician on the day of filming, a camera for recording (obviously) a tripod to stand and steady the camera on because I needed my shots to not be hand held. I also took an SD card out because I have lost mine and needed something with a large amount of storage space to hold all of my footage be it good or bad until I could transfer it onto my memory stick the next day at college.

I took the camera home that night to do some more filming that I had arranged with the main character Charlie to do some filming at my house, not much arranging was needed for this as we live fairly close so travel was not a problem. That night we filmed several different shots from through out my music video all in the same outfit because they were all in the same setting just in different times in the video.

I had a problem putting on my actors make-up as I am very bad with make-up and no very little about it other than it goes on your face. I took this as an opportunity to be as messy and as creative as I liked and the dark eye-shadow and red lipstick matched the colour scheme of her Americana styled dress which is the closest I could get to an american themed piece of clothing as I have seen that a lot of rockers and hipsters wear this sort of clothing these days. (Although Avril Lavigne is from Canada).

We managed to get a lot of filming done and made a few props along the way, however I came across a flaw in my decision in what to book out in that I did not book out a camera charger. This meant that after a while of shooting my camera decided to call it a day and ran out of charge. This problem could have been solved if I had been a bit more thoughtful and organised in my decision making. I could have also got more filming done if I shut the camera when I wasn't filming to save battery. My actor and I also got very distracted at one point wasting a lot of time during this filming and we recorded on the camera which could have also used up valuable space and battery life.

When I arrived at college the next day after filming the night before I could not get into the technicians room as he does not get in until 10 on a Wednesday, luckily I found Tim the head of media and he took the tripod and camera of my hands for me as I had to go to my first lesson of the day. Before I did this however I quickly transferred all of my footage onto my 8GB memory stick and deleted the footage of the SD card so that another person could use it.