Filming Diary and Problems we faced

Before we started filming we knew our actors availability was restricted, so we had ensure we were prepared to film as much as we could when we could.

Filming Session 1: The first filming session we had consisted of shooting all the scenes that included only the male lead/Artist. This included 3 filming locations; Alfie's car, Olly's house and an underpass tunnel. Whilst filming we purposefully filmed much more than we needed to as well as filming from as many angles as possible. Even though we planned what we filmed, we still shot a lot of the ideas we had at the time. Almost all of the scenes we shot included the male lead lip syncing to the music, to ensure that the actors singing was in time with the songs track we played the song whilst filming.

Filming Schedule 2: Our second filming session included all three actors that features in the music video. We filmed in two locations; Olly's house for flashback scenes and down a grassy lane beside a river. For one of the scenes we needed a second camera for a creative effect, which we were able to do very successfully. Again we did not ignore our spontaneous ideas we gathered whilst filming as some of the footage we took was not planned and worked well. However we did encountered a problem after re watching the footage, some of the scenes we felt were unusable as they didn't meet the quality standard we expected to achieve. With this we had to plan a reshoot at a later date, but as stated above actor availability was tight, so we had to ensure we were 100% prepared before finding another slot to film.

Filming Schedule 3: With the third and what we thought was the last filming session just being reshoots, we hoped to get it done rather quickly but when the time came to actually re film we realised there would now be other scenes we'd have to reshoot for continuity issues. We successfully managed to film what we wanted and went on to edit it all together.

New Ideas: Whilst we were editing there was a huge snow fall and we thought we could use it to our advantage, as the 'Make up and Break up' of the onscreen couple was written to have a large gap in time we that thought having snow in the mise-en-scene would be a great way to represent that time had passed from the couple breaking up and getting back together. This idea went onto our fourth and final shooting session.

Filming Schedule 4: For this filming schedule we wrote in some new scenes to include the new snowy scenary, and an updated ending to match.