Construction - Filming day 1

Today was the first full day that I used to film the music video and to take more pictures for the magazine and digipak. Filming the music video, was a lot less stressful then I was expecting and a big relief to have it complete. The reason that I am relieved to have managed to get the filming done was due to a number of different reasons. The first reason was the idea that the weather was forcast to rain all day. This was going to be a big problem if it had happened as the location I was going to be using to film was outside. Having an outside location is risky in the first place as at this time of the year you can never predict what is going to happen. The second reason that I am relieved to have managed to get the filming done was due to the idea that I had to organise to get five different people in the same location at the same time. This was a big task as I was working with two people of the age of nine that needed adult supervision.

When filming the different shots, I started off filming Katie and Ashley because they had more shots to be completed, and the youngest girl had not arrived yet to allow me to film the younger couple. Filming these two first went smoothly as they cooperated well with what I was asking them to do and they also gave me suggestions of extra shots that I was able to film, incase I wanted to add them to the video.

The next two people I filmed was Tia and Matthew. The reason I decided to do them next was due to the idea that I was then able to use the tree, without having to add extra ribbon for the final women at the end. When filming the two younger ones, I did have a couple of different challenges when it came to asking them to do different shots. The problem was down to the idea that Tia is far from the sterotypical girl, asshe wore for the video were out of her comfort zone which is why I did not force her to wear the dress that I had planned in the beginning. However it did cause problems as she was very desperate to get changed, instead of cooperating with the different shot types that I was asking for.

The final person that I filmed was the oldest women who was played by Carroll. Carroll was one of the best people to work with as it was only going to be one person in the shots. The only thing that caused delay when filming her was the idea that we needed to add extra ribbon to the tree, and had to go round and tie it to the end of the branches.

After the filming, I used this as an opportunity to take more pictures for the magazine and digipak. The reason I did this was because I was already in the location, with people who were willing to be in the images. The reason that I decided to take more images, was to allow myself more of a variety to choose from. Take the images was very easy as I got locatiom shots and used only one model, which meant that it was easier to ask them to do different things for the pictures.