We began our filming on the 12.12.11. We had a good 2 hours with the camera so we filmed as much as we could in these 2 hours. We had 6 actors/actresses to play in our film and we began to film according to our storyboard. This made it easy for us as we were able to follow our plan. We were productive in terms of we knew what we were doing and got a good amount filmed, however when we played back our footage we realised that it didn't look like how we expected. This was because the actors/actresses kept laughing and it didn't look real. We realised that to make our music video effective and believable, which is what we want, we need to correct this. We then decided to find different actors/actresses and really map out or vision so that we wouldn't make the same mistake twice. We then re-scheduled to film for thursday 19th January and Tuesday 24th January. On the 19th we have booked drama room 3 where we can use the lights and curtains to create a good appearance to film our band in. This means that we will develop the quality of our idea from our first filming, where the band were set up in a normal music room. Our new location and equipment will look more professional and engaging for our audience to watch.
Another fault we realised when we played back our filming is that the lighting was bad in some areas. for example, the image below shows how the footage is too dark and it is unclear to see our actress. We need to make sure that when we re-film we don't have this happen and our our footage is clear so that we don't have to re-film again.
On the 24th we will then film the rest of our music video, where our band is not on screen, this is the storyline to fit the song. Again, once we had looked at our footage we did see that our actors/actresses weren't believable but then we felt that the storyline didn't really fit in as well as we had imagened. However, we do not regret that we changed our idea because we would have thought 'what if we did this, what if we did that' otherwise. At least now we have tried out the idea and seen that it hasn't worked. We have now decided to revert back to our original idea, which we actually didn't try out with the camera, to the story of a man and a women being far away from each other. We are going to do this by re-constructing our plan and fitting in our new ideas.
