Sunday 26th November
This was the first day in which we filmed. We arrived at Ollie's house (which would be acting as my house in the video) and we got Sean to come as he is playing our main singer of the band as well as acting as my on screen boyfriend. We decided as a group that we should shoot most of the fantasy sequences on this day that occur at 'my' house. I laid in bed in a white jumper as the lyrics are about lying on the side and Yasmin filmed from a few different angles, including from the front and the back where I was sleeping. After this, Sean and I were told to do fight scene where Ollie filmed us arguing from over the shoulder of the other. While we were arguing, we mimed the lyrics of 505 so we would be able to cut our lip sync together with the actual song in the edit. We then went on the bed and had more of a fully blown argument where we made it look like 'couples fighting' even though we were just arguing about chocolate.
There were many different camera angles that were shot of this scene due to the fact we needed a lot of choice when we came to post production. I was positioned behind Sean, whereas he was in front. The gap between us displayed the relationship splitting and coming to an end.
In order to get most of the filming out of the way, we decided to do the end scene which is where I am shown having taken too many pills and I am position flat on the floor with my arm out having pills near me. After this we went to the forest and shot more scenes so that we could start editing and get a head start with the video. We also took pictures for the digipak and album advert on this day.
I think this day went well for the first time shooting together as a group and I look forward to the next day of shooting.
Friday 9th December
On this day, we went to the bowling alley where I was filmed by Yasmin playing bowling. Due to Yasmin's dad knowing the owner, we were able to film and play the game for free. As I am not the best at bowling, Yasmin took some shots and Ollie filmed her ball hitting the pins as she could make most of the pins fall over. So in the video, it would look as if my character is actually good at bowling.
This was the only day that we had access to the bowling alley so we made the most of it and played one game of basketball on the certain machine. This worked well as I pretended to throw the ball at the camera (which would be max) and in the video, he would dunk in a different location as if to show uncertainty in their relationship which is why my character is throwing objects at him in anger.
This was another successful day of filming and I couldn't wait to continue onto the next day.
Saturday 10th December
On this day, we went to a pub where Yasmin took a polaroid picture of me reading a menu so that when she went to Max's house to film him he could look at that picture while being filmed, in order to make him look as if he is reminiscing his relationship and missing the happy moments they shared together.
I thought by this point as it was going so well with the filming, that we have something special to put together in the edit.
Saturday 7th January
This was our last official day of filming the rest of our music video. I was asked to 'look sexy' while I stoked my leg and tapped on the chair for Sean to come and sit next to me. It took a few takes as I had to get used to acting promiscuously. We had fun filming this because of that, nevertheless we were able to get the shot in the end.
On this day, we also filmed Sean singing to the camera in order to create the performance style for the video. We placed him in front of a cream/white wall so that on final cut, we would be able to play with the colours we see on that particular shot and make it darker or lighter - whichever looks better in the editing process.
After we finished the shots of him singing and the high angle of the stroking of the leg shot, we thought my character should cry blood so we put ketchup on my face for it to look like tears, neverthess, it didn't look very realistic so we rejected that idea and went to to get some shots outside in different shops.
Saturday 10th December
On this day, we went to a pub where Yasmin took a polaroid picture of me reading a menu so that when she went to Max's house to film him he could look at that picture while being filmed, in order to make him look as if he is reminiscing his relationship and missing the happy moments they shared together.
I thought by this point as it was going so well with the filming, that we have something special to put together in the edit.
Saturday 7th January
This was our last official day of filming the rest of our music video. I was asked to 'look sexy' while I stoked my leg and tapped on the chair for Sean to come and sit next to me. It took a few takes as I had to get used to acting promiscuously. We had fun filming this because of that, nevertheless we were able to get the shot in the end.
On this day, we also filmed Sean singing to the camera in order to create the performance style for the video. We placed him in front of a cream/white wall so that on final cut, we would be able to play with the colours we see on that particular shot and make it darker or lighter - whichever looks better in the editing process.
After we finished the shots of him singing and the high angle of the stroking of the leg shot, we thought my character should cry blood so we put ketchup on my face for it to look like tears, neverthess, it didn't look very realistic so we rejected that idea and went to to get some shots outside in different shops.
This was a great way to finish the filming as I enjoyed every bit of it. I can't wait to see the finished project after it's edited.
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