filming day 3

With the weather looking appealingly bright, we decided to film the footage of Elle and Alex in our local park in which they meet on a park bench and realise they are reading the same novel. We walked around the park in order to find a correct bench for how we wanted our material to look. After 20 minutes of walking through muddy grass and leaves, we found a bench at the far end of the park where not many people were walking past and we thought this was perfect.

We started off with all the "novel" scenes where they first meet and then Alex starts talking to Elle and that's how there romance begins. We filmed it in front as a two shot, behind to get an over the shoulder shot and also panned around them and up to the sky as we remembered this was what we had planned to do on our animated storyboard. We also took a photo of Elle and Alex in this position (as imaged above) in order for our green screen idea. This was to get the camera over a montage of photos of them and the zoom in to this photo and make it turn to "real life". If this doesn't work, we shall just use the still image instead and use a transition from the MAC'S to take it in to real life.

Whilst we were still on the bench, we then filmed the "break up" shots of Elle. This included a close up of her with a clear umbrella over her head. It wasn't raining however so one of us had a bottle of water with us on set and we poured this over the umbrella and got shots of it "trickling down" the sides to appear like it was raining. This was one of the main reasons as to why we used a clear umbrella too. We also filmed a shot of Elle's face from outside the umbrella to make the rain appear like it was her tears and this will hopefully really capture her being upset from the break up.

Finally, as we thought we had achieved all the shots we needed, we then filmed some "muck around" shots of Elle and Alex together in their good times, just in case we didn't already have enough from IKEA on day 2 of filming. We also remembered that we wanted some shots of the pair of them to make it look like it was a "home video" effect. So, we achieved this by Elle getting on Alex's back and Elle pointing the camera at them laughing, joking, running around and just having fun as a couple.

So, with 3 out of our 4 locations filmed, I can't to get all the filming completed and begin editing our music video into what we hope will be a great success!