Practice filming

For our practice filming we filmed in a public park, called south weald as we felt the setting suited our song well and shots would look effective here. Before we began our filming we tried out different make up and hair styles, This look was what we originally had matched with this scene and we think it works well.

Practice filming went well and although we had planned a lot of shots because of previously visiting the setting and knowing certain features that were already there, such as the steps. We also gained a lot of shots we hadn't planned but feel that were most effective, like the weaving in and out of the trees with editing it made the shot something that we hadn't even originally  thought of and really effective.

For the filming we had me with bare feet this was added to our risk assessment because of it being a public place we wouldn't know what could be on the floor and could be glass around. We think the barefoot went really well with the ambiance of the video and suited our artist.

Problems that we occurred were things such as, it being so cold that it made filming quite difficult because of me being in just a dress i got very cold and couldn't film for hours like would have been needed. We also had to be aware of the public because although we had made sure we were there early and on a weekday to avoid a lot of people there was still people around and walking through and wanting to walk down/ up the stairs we were filming on, but in the end we got there. We had problems with the memory and charge on the camera because there was not a lot of room on the SD card but we deleted some unneeded footage which aloud us to film although the camera did begin the run out of charge but i feel we learnt from this to make sure that the camera is always fully charged before we leave and to make sure we have enough memory!

Things that went well with our filming was finding all the different places to film that we didn't know where there. I think the steps were our best setting through the filming with running i think it looks very effective. The practice filming showed us how important it was that we needed to film every section of the song even if we weren't planning to use it because when we came round to editing it we had shots that would have looked effective in certain places but because i had not lip synced them we had to use them in other places that were not so effective.

If anything i think our practice filming was the most help out of any of our tasks we completed for when filming because it showed how we worked as a group and gave us experience of what we need to do when we go to film our real thing.

Here are some images from our day of  filming. The first picture shows how perfect the day was for our filming, there was natural sunlight but still an edge of coldness to the sky. The third picture is where we done a main chunk of lip syncing filming it really matched the whole forest setting and was really handy it was in  the middle of all the trees  as it then made it look old, mossy and had trees in the background.

Feedback we gained from the practice filming is obviously that i needed to work on learning the words off by heart so that i don't muck up on some of the sections. Majority of people commented on how effective the straight cuts we had used were and will be something we will look into when it comes to real filming. A section that all of our people feeding back commented on was the 'cha cha cha' section. When we first filmed that section we were quite unsure on it and how it would work because as we were filming it just looked quite boring just me walking in and out of trees but once it came to editing and Faye added effects of ghosting and a cross dissolve it was really effective! and was everyone's favorite part.