Shooting Journal - Day One

Due to some of the group having commitments earlier on in the day, we decided we would shoot from 1:00pm onwards, but other things such as sorting out hair and costume took some time before we actually left to get on to set. Seeing as the clocks had gone back, we now had less time to shoot all our footage and we knew by then that we would be needing our extra day to finish all the shooting! When we finally decide to get moving we were two hours late into our filming which was worrying. But we made a speedy recovery by getting the set ready to shoot very quickly by coming together as a team and literally throwing red string any-where and every-where all over our 'Heartwood tree'. Upon discovering this location, it was decided that this tree would be the centre of the music video. After we had set everything up, we went about shooting our first shots on our shot list which included a some performance shots in the tree's for the verses. We had two camera's to use to our advantage and this diagram kindly borrowed from Cary shows the positions we placed them in:


When filming, we realised we were losing light very fast and due to it being natural lighting, there was nothing we could do about it, but having two cameras helped solve this issue and we got twice the footage that we could have had.

Other shots that we decided to shoot was some frolicking around the tree shots for the chorus as it is more upbeat and the drums in the song could represent the running around the tree's.We also filming some random filler shots of nature that we could add somewhere into our sequence to break up the sequence and narrative and make it flow more.

When the park closed we had to stop shooting and leave the premises. When looking back on the footage we realised that all that we captured, the lighting was really dark, and if we were going to use some of this footage, it should be colour graded to make the image lighter.