Jo arrived an hour late due to heavy traffic and the make-up artist that she brought along was another hour after that. Already this left us way behind schedule. The make-up artist then spent a long time doing Jo's make-up. This meant that when we actually started filming in the attic, it was the same time as we were expecting to wrap it up.
My group took turns in working the camera, being the director and playing the music that she had to lip sync to. On some occasions all three of us had to work together, like when Tom was the grip (pushing the camera forwards on the track), Izzy was changing the focus and I was on the camera. This left no-one on playback so we had to ask one of the actors we were going to use to help us out.
Throughout our shoot day we had to adapt to numerous situations. For example, initially we were going to shoot Jo lip syncing against the wall of the attic with the projections on her. We then had to scrap this idea as the loft was too small for her to even stand straight. This meant we had to film her sitting down and we decided to make it so that she is watching the projection.
Our attic shoot went very smooth as we didn't have to give many instructions to Jo as she is already a professional performer and has been in many music videos in the past. Before lunch we did medium shots, close-ups, long shots etc. and after lunch we did tracking and panning shots. One of the things we found hard was keeping the camera perfectly still when doing the tracking shots of Jo. Not only did Izzy (on the camera) have to have a steady hand, but I had to keep a very slow and steady pace when pushing and pulling the camera on the tracks.
When we finished filming the attic set, we decided that we didn't have enough time to complete the rooftop or park shots. Therefore we decided to shoot her up against a black background with projections of an old film over her. We did this because we felt that we didn't have enough variety in our performance element. If the worst came to the worst and the narrative couldn't be filmed, then i think this was enough performance to fill the whole video.
Since we didn't film the rooftop shots on our shoot day, we had to book the studio for a few days later. Unfortunately our male actor was busy and we had to look for someone else. After a long search, the only person we thought that could match the part was Tom from our group. Due to this, me and Izzy had to work extra hard as one of our group members couldn't help out. Before the shoot we built the rooftop against the green screen. We had fake trees against the green screen so we were worried that the leaves on the tree would merge in. To make sure this wouldn't happen we had to change the set up of our lighting so that the green screen was a much brighter green then the trees. In the end the shoot was pretty straight forward, and I think worked very well
Overall I am very happy with what me and my group have done so far and I am looking forward to start editing.
